In 2024, 60,850,091 admissions were recorded in state cultural venues of the Ministry of Culture, an increase of 5.3 percent compared to the 57,730,502 tickets taken out in 2023, and 382,004,344 euros were received, an increase of 23 percent compared to the 313,888,163 euros collected in 2023. This is the first preview of the data processed by Sistan, the statistics service of the Ministry of Culture, which will be made public in the special section of the institutional website next Monday.
A record, therefore, of visitors and revenues in state museums and archaeological parks that obtained last year. Specifically, in the 299 paid institutions there were 31,764,116 paying visitors and 19,848,707 free admissions, while in the 154 free institutions there were 9,217,268 admissions.
In addition, while there were 18,743,830 admissions in museums, there were 31,487,563 in monuments and archaeological areas. 10,618,698, finally, were visitors to museum circuits.
“This is the best result ever for state museums and archaeological parks,” said Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, “higher even than the precovid levels, when 54.8 million visitors were reached in 2019. It is a sign of how well the government is working and how Italian culture and beauty are recognized and appreciated around the world, generating in millions of people the desire to fully enjoy them by visiting our country.”
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Record number of visitors and revenue in state museums in 2024. Giuli: "The best result ever." |
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