Number of museum visitors by museum type Germany

Attendance at museums in Germany fell dramatically in 2020 over the previous year due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In the first year of the health crisis, museums and similar cultural institutions had to close to the public for months as the country enforced emergency measures to limit the spread of the virus. As a result of the closures, art galleries in Germany reported around 8.6 million visitors in 2020, after welcoming nearly 20 million people in 2019. Over the same period, attendance at historical and archaeological museums declined by approximately 14 million.

Number of visitors to museums in Germany from 2015 to 2020, by museum type (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Art galleries	Historical and archaeological museums	Science and technology museums	Local and regional history museums/ethnographic museums	Natural history museums	Castle museums	Specialized cultural history museums	Other museums¹
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Release date

December 2022

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2015 to 2020

Supplementary notes

¹ Figures on museum complexes and museums with multiple collections have been summed by Statista.

Data prior to 2019 were previously published by the source. Figures have been rounded.

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