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Performing arts 2016: the offering drops while sales rise 29/03/2017

The performing arts offering in Barcelona continued to follow the downward trend that began in 2011 but the number of spectators grew a timid 2% over 2015. In recent years the performing arts field in Barcelona has been progressively reducing its offering of productions, performances and seats, while its spectator figures have slowly begun to […]

Attendance Report for La Mercè 2016 08/11/2016

Between 22 and 25 September Barcelona celebrated its annual city festival. In 2016, the feast of Saint Mercè fell on a Saturday which meant the festival would be short and condensed and that most activities would be held over the weekend. A noteworthy feature of this year’s festival was the diversification of venues, with the […]

Cultural indicators for Barcelona 2015 07/10/2016

On the homepage of this website you have available the report Cultural indicators for Barcelona 2015, a summary of the most important cultural events in the city in these areas: Museums and exhibition spaces Archives and heritage libraries Performing arts spaces Concert spaces Cinemas Art Factories Barcelona libraries Civic centres Cultural festivals City festivals Grants […]

Art Factories: a qualitative assessment 11/05/2016

The Observatori de Dades Culturals de Barcelona (Barcelona Cultural Data Observatory) presents a report outlining the basis for a proposed qualitative assessment of the Art Factories network. Our focus, until now, has been on quantitative indicators, although we’ve always been fully aware that quantitative information is inadequate to explain what an art factory is in […]

Profile of the visitors to the Barcelona museums. Survey 2015 09/05/2016

For the past five years the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB, Culture Institute of Barcelona) has conducted a survey of visitors to the city’s museums with the purpose of discovering the profile of people drawn to these facilities. In the 2015 survey, three additional museums were included whereas surveys of the Picasso Museum were […]

Grec Festival Barcelona: audience survey 05/05/2016

A Grec Festival survey to analyse such aspects as the rating spectators give the Festival or the degree of audience loyalty. This is the 9th edition of a study that began in 1989 and has gradually incorporated new objectives over time. The last three editions (2007, 2011 and 2015) are the most comparable and the […]