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Listening: Swiss museums celebrate 15 million admissions
Museum attendance is back on the rise in Switzerland. Nearly 15 million admissions were recorded in 2023, 12% more than the 2015-2019 average prior to the Covid crisis.
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15 millions d’entrées dans les musées suisses l’an dernier
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The data published on Monday by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) provides comparisons only with the pre-Covid period. The 14.95 million admissions recorded in 2023 represent a 5% increase on 2019.
The increase was particularly high in natural science (+27% on the 2015-2019 average) and technical (+26%) museums. In 2023, 67 museums recorded 50,000 admissions or more, the highest figure since statistics began.
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Last year the total number of museums in Switzerland fell by 37 to 1,104 compared to 2019. Nearly four out of ten museums (39%) were fully accessible to wheelchair users, with marked disparities between types of institution.
Nearly half the museums offered exhibitions with texts written in easy-to-understand language (46%) or with large fonts (41%). Braille texts or audio guides were available in 17% of museums.
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