Provident Financial : Museums and Archaeological Sites Attendance, September 2019

HELLENIC REPUBLIC
HELLENIC STATISTICAL AUTHORITY	Piraeus, 15 January 2020

PRESS RELEASE

SURVEY ON MUSEUMS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES ATTENDANCE

SEPTEMBER 2019

The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announces the results of the Survey on Museums and Archaeological Sites Attendance for September 2019. More specifically:

• In September 2019 compared with the corresponding month of 2018, Museums experienced a 2.5% increase in the number of visitors and a 2.2% increase in the number of free admission visitors as well as a 28.0% increase in their receipts (Table 1).
• In September 2019 compared with the corresponding month of 2018, the number of visitors at Archaeological sites recorded an increase of 12.3%, while an increase of 20.1% was observed in the number of free admission visitors and a 10.2% increase in the corresponding receipts (Table 1).
• During the nine-month period from January to September 2019, an increase of 5.0% was observed in the number of visitors of Museums, while a decrease of 9.2% was recorded in the number of free admission visitors and a 29.1% increase in the relevant receipts, in comparison with the corresponding period of 2018 (Table 2).
• As regards Archaeological sites, during the nine-month period from January to September 2019, an increase of 5.6% was recorded in the number of visitors, while an 11.1% decrease was observed in the number of free admission visitors and a 9.7% increase in the relevant receipts, in comparison with the corresponding period of 2018 (Table 2).

Graph 1: Visitors of Museums and Archaeological sites (January 2014 - September 2019)

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Total Visitors (museums & archaeological sites)

Visitors with free admission tickets (museums & archaeological sites)

Information on methodological issues:	Information for data provision:
Sectoral Statistics Division	Tel. [phone], 2308, 2310
Tourism and Cultural Statistics Section	e-mail:[e-mail]
Head of the Section: Asimina Katri
Tel: [phone]
Fax:[phone]
e-mail:[e-mail]

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TABLE 1: VISITORS OF MUSEUMS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES - TOTAL RECEIPTS

(SEPTEMBER 2018 & SEPTEMBER 2019)

Ι. NUMBER OF VISITORS

	Museums and Archaeological sites		2018			2019			Change
						2019/2018
	Total number of visitors (Α+Β)		2,303,955			2,522,433			9.5%
	Α. Μuseums (C+E)		662,631			679,334			2.5%
	Acropolis Museum		193,645		173,232			-10.5%
	National Archaeological		69,298		65,022			-6.2%
	Ancient Olympia		17,348		16,906			-2.5%
	Palace of the Grand Master (Rhodes)		39,998		42,914			7.3%
	Herakleion Archaeological (Crete)		83,751		112,640			34.5%
	White Tower		20,929		21,874			4.5%
	Delphi		29,482		30,456			3.3%
	Other museums		208,180		216,290			3.9%
	Β. Archaeological Sites (D+F)		1,641,324			1,843,099			12.3%
	Εpidavros (1)		64,999		65,550			0.8%
	The Acropolis of Mycenae & Atreus' Treasure		57,206		57,796			1.0%
	The Acropolis of Athens (2)		342,427		436,786			27.6%
	Sounio		33,401		40,179			20.3%
	The Acropolis of Lindos		89,194		94,432			5.9%
	Royal Tombs of Vergina		20,431		21,527			5.4%
	Αncient Olympia		57,638		57,446			-0.3%
	Knossos (Crete)		122,682		133,015			8.4%
	Phaistos (Crete)		13,520		14,303			5.8%
	Αncient Korinthos (1)		24,245		27,028			11.5%
	Μystras (1)		17,350		19,176			10.5%
	Delphi		45,584		49,116			7.7%
	Other archaeological sites		752,647		826,745			9.8%
	ΙΙ. VISITORS WHO PAID TICKET
			2018			2019			Change
							2019/2018
	Total number of visitors who paid ticket (C+D)		1,620,153			1,745,562			7.7%
	C. Μuseums		414,295			425,490			2.7%
	D. Αrchaeological sites		1,205,858			1,320,072			9.5%
	ΙΙΙ. VISITORS WITH FREE ADMISSION TICKETS
			2018			2019			Change
							2019/2018
	Total number of visitors with free admission ticket (E+F)		683,802			776,871			13.6%
	E. Μuseums		248,336		253,844			2.2%
	F. Αrchaeological sites		435,466		523,027			20.1%
	IV. RECEIPTS (euros)
			2018			2019			Change
							2019/2018
	Total Receipts (G+H)		16,835,800			19,012,406			12.9%
	G. Μuseums		2,552,485		3,267,155			28.0%
	H. Αrchaeological sites		14,283,315		15,745,251			10.2%

1. Flat rate ticket, valid both for the museum and the archaeological site.

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The following graphs depict the evolution of the receipts (Graph 2), as well as the number of visitors by Museum and Archaeological Site (Graphs 3 and 4, respectively).

Graph 2: Receipts from Museums and Archaeological Sites (January 2014 - September 2019) (in thousand euro)

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Graph 3: Percentage distribution of visitors by Museum, September 2019

							Acropolis Museum
							25.5%
Other museums
31.8%
							National Archaeological
							9.6%
							Ancient Olympia
							2.5%
Delphi
4.5%							Palace of the Grand Master
White Tower							(Rhodes)
						6.3%
3.2%		Herakleion Archaeological
				(Crete)
			16.6%
Graph 4: Percentage distribution of visitors by Archaeological site, September 2019
Other archaeological sites					Εpidavros
		3.6%	The Acropolis of Mycenae &
44.9%
						Atreus' Treasure
							3.1%
							The Acropolis of Athens
							23.7%
Delphi
2.7%
Μystras							Sounio
						2.2%
1.0%
						The Acropolis of Lindos
Αncient Korinthos
						5.1%
1.5%
Knossos (Crete)	Αncient Olympia	Royal Tombs of Vergina
Phaistos (Crete)
0.8%	7.2%		3.1%		1.2%

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TABLE 2: VISITORS OF MUSEUMS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES - TOTAL RECEIPTS

(2017, 2018, JANUARY-SEPTEMBER 2018 & 2019)

	Ι. VISITORS
	Museums and Archaeological sites		2017			2018			JANUARY-SEPTEMBER			change
						2018		2019			2019/2018
	Total number of visitors (Α+Β)	16,524,557		18,603,282		15,220,604		16,048,875			5.4%
	Α. Μuseums (C+E)	5,191,781		5,702,211		4,528,658		4,754,250			5.0%
	Acropolis Museum	1,593,362	1,774,304		1,397,644		1,412,098			1.0%
	National Archaeological	545,555	594,219		463,407		482,577			4.1%
	Ancient Olympia	145,118	156,658		131,382		133,019			1.2%
	Palace of the Grand Master (Rhodes)	235,413	242,759		203,144		219,316			8.0%
	Herakleion Archaeological (Crete)	426,191	555,031		456,973		557,338			22.0%
	White Tower	268,149	225,944		170,444		189,958			11.4%
	Delphi	211,827	249,754		202,525		223,072			10.1%
	Other museums	1,766,166	1,903,542		1,503,139		1,536,872			2.2%
	Β. Archaeological Sites (D+F)	11,332,776		12,901,071		10,691,946		11,294,625			5.6%
	Εpidavros (1)	469,060	548,900		470,607		448,185			-4.8%
	The Acropolis of Mycenae & Atreus' Treasure	412,397	495,993		418,498		416,519			-0.5%
	The Acropolis of Athens(2)	2,766,218	3,150,604		2,546,877		2,907,691			14.2%
	Sounio	259,709	306,665		252,585		273,770			8.4%
	The Acropolis of Lindos(3)	441,012	489,137		423,583		454,955			7.4%
	Royal Tombs of Vergina	203,632	222,503		179,295		178,085			-0.7%
	Αncient Olympia	481,252	484,238		402,459		379,470			-5.7%
	Knossos (Crete)	634,710	855,663		709,519		784,309			10.5%
	Phaistos (Crete)	95,182	134,538		100,781		91,925			-8.8%
	Αncient Korinthos (1)	191,836	196,944		158,321		167,119			5.6%
	Μystras (1)	125,549	145,939		124,600		124,600			0.0%
	Delphi	345,804	405,947		337,731		331,285			-1.9%
	Other archaeological sites	4,906,415	5,464,000		4,567,090		4,736,712			3.7%
	ΙΙ. VISITORS WHO PAID TICKET
			2017			2018			JANUARY-SEPTEMBER			change
							2018		2019			2019/2018
	Total number of visitors who paid ticket (C+D)	10,288,448		11,576,110		9,517,922		10,942,472			15.0%
	C. Μuseums	2,831,466	3,155,269		2,539,690		2,949,114			16.1%
	D. Αrchaeological sites	7,456,982	8,420,841		6,978,232		7,993,358			14.5%
	ΙΙΙ. VISITORS WITH FREE ADMISSION TICKETS
			2017			2018			JANUARY-SEPTEMBER			change
							2018		2019			2019/2018
	Total number of visitors with free admission	6,236,109		7,027,172		5,702,682		5,106,403			-10.5%
	ticket (E+F)
	E. Μuseums	2,360,315	2,546,942		1,988,968		1,805,136			-9.2%
	F. Αrchaeological sites	3,875,794	4,480,230		3,713,714		3,301,267			-11.1%
	IV. RECEIPTS (euros)
			2017			2018			JANUARY-SEPTEMBER			change
							2018		2019			2019/2018
	Total Receipts (G+H)	102,887,879		115,772,341		97,046,034		109,346,406			12.7%
	G. Μuseums	16,175,121	18,251,493		14,929,666		19,270,293			29.1%
	H. Αrchaeological sites	86,712,758	97,520,848		82,116,368		90,076,113			9.7%

1. Flat rate ticket, valid both for the museum and the archaeological site.
2. From May 2017 onwards, the data for the number of tickets in the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens include the tickets of the Ancient Theatre of Dionysus.
3. The data referring to the number of tickets for the archaeological sites of the Acropolis of Lindos from November 2018 to February 2019 are provisional and are based on estimation.

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	EXPLANATORY NOTES
Survey on	The Survey on Museums and Archaeological Sites Attendance has been producing results since 1970, The
Museums and	survey collects data from the Archaeological Receipts Fund (ARF) of the Ministry of Culture and Sports
Archaeological	concerning the number of visitors and the receipts from the tickets sold in the Museums and Archaeological
Sites	sites of the country.
Attendance	The corresponding data for the Acropolis Museum is available from December 2009 onwards.
Legal	The survey is conducted since 1970 on a regular basis and it produces results on a monthly and yearly basis,
Framework	in compliance with the Joint Ministerial Decision 15189/B379/73.
Reference	01/09/2019 to 30/09/2019
Period
Methodology	The Survey is conducted on a monthly basis from data mainly collected from the Archaeological Receipts
and Definitions	Fund (ARF) of the Ministry of Culture and Sports concerning the number of visitors and the receipts from
	the tickets sold in the Museums and Archaeological sites of the Country. ELSTAT tabulates and present the
	data for the whole of the Country, by month and by year.

	Number of flat rate tickets
	From April 1999 onwards, in some museums and the nearby archaeological sites, in addition to the ordinary
	ticket, a new "flat rate ticket" was established, which is valid for both the museum and the nearby
	archaeological site, The total number of these flat rate tickets for September 2019 was 141,971.
References	More information on the Survey on Museums and Archaeological Sites Attendance and detailed time series
	are available on:http://www,statistics,gr/en/statistics/-/publication/SCI21/-

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