Sponsored museums and galleries annual performance indicators 2017/18
This release covers a number of performance indicators for DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries. covering the 2017/18 period.
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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) sponsors 15 national museums which provide free entry to their permanent collections. The data for this release are collected by the museums through sample surveys, with the exception of the information on educational visits and total visits, which are based on actual counts.
Revisions
Amendment on 7 February 2019: Minor amendments have been made to the Tate Gallery Group historic visitor figures from 2008/09 to 2013/14. These revisions have been marked in red in the associated tables and all other figures remain as previously published. The chart showing the Total number of visits to DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries 2002/03 to 2017/18 in the statistical release has also been updated to reflect the minor amendments made to the historic data for the years 2008/09 to 2013/14.
Amendment on 3 October 2018: The associated tables for this publication have been revised since there were first published on 26 September 2018 following the discovery of a minor error to the 2017/18 annual visitor figure for the National Portrait Gallery. Historic figures for the sponsored museums and galleries have also been revised to be consistent with the Museums and galleries monthly visits totals. More details are provided in the Revised Table 1.
First Published
26 September 2018
Period covered
April 2017 to March 2018
Next update
Autumn 2019
Geographic coverage
England
Pre-release access
The pre-release access document contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release of Sponsored Museums: Performance Indicators. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.
The UK Statistics Authority
This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (2009) produced by the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA). The UKSA has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.
The responsible statistician for this release is Wilmah Deda. For enquiries on this release, contact Wilmah Deda on 020 7211 6376.
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Updates to this page
Published 26 September 2018Last updated 7 February 2019 + show all updates
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Minor ammendments have been made to the Tate Gallery historic visitor figures for the years 2008/09 to 2013/14. In addition to this the chart showing the Total number of visits to DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries 2002/03 to 2017/18 in the statistical release has also been updated to reflect these amendments.
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Amendment on 3 October 2018: The associated tables for this publication have been revised since there were first published on 26 September 2018 following the discovery of a minor error to the 2017/18 annual visitor figure for the National Portrait Gallery. Historic figures for a number of the museums and galleries have also been revised to be consistent with the museum and galleries monthly visits totals. More details are provided in the Revised Table 1.
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First published.