Microsoft Word − 04 Culture and church.docx (X:100.0%, Y:100.0%) Created by Grafikhuset Publi PDF. Culture and National Church Museums and cultural heritage Libraries Films and media Theatres Culture, economy and structure National Church Microsoft Word − 04 Culture and church.docx (X:100.0%, Y:100.0%) Created by Grafikhuset Publi PDF. Culture and National Church Museums and cultural heritage 14.5 million visits to museums In 2014, admission rates of Danish museums reached 14.5 million visitors. Of the 255 museums included in the statistics, 129 are subsidized by the state. Museums subsidized or owned by the state had 11.3 million visitors in 2014, equal to 78 per cent of the total number of visitors in 2014. In 2014, the zoological and botanical gardens had a total of 4.9 million visitors. Louisiana the most visited museum Louisiana The Art museum Louisiana account for the highest admission rates of 648,000 visitors. With a total of 591,000 visitors, Prinsens Palæ which is a part of the National Museum of Denmark is now ranked as number two. Figure 1 Museums - the ten highest admission rates Louisiana Museum The National Museum, Prinsens Palais Rundetårn 2014 ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum 2013 The Old Town The Danish National Gallery Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Post & Tele Museum The Rosenborg Collection Kronborg Castle 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Thousand visits www.statbank.dk/mus Libraries Danes borrow fewer books The population continue to visit public libraries, but they do not borrow as many books as before. Lending of physical books was 27.6 million in 2014, which is 0.9 million fewer loans than the year before. This is a decrease of 3 per cent. In 2014 the number of downloads was 1.6 mio. e-books. Due to new definitions on inventory of electronic ressources the figures for 2014 are not comparable with pre- vious years. Figure 2 Lending from public libraries. 2014 Books, 73.8 per cent Audio books, 3.1 per cent Music, 5.8 per cent Film, 9.6 per cent Multimedia, 1.8 per cent Periodicals, 4.8 per cent Other, 1.0 per cent www.statbank.dk/bib1 Statistical Yearbook 2016 Microsoft Word − 04 Culture and church.docx (X:100.0%, Y:100.0%) Created by Grafikhuset Publi PDF. Culture and National Church Films and media Decrease in the number of tickets sold for films From 2013 to 2014 the number of tickets sold for films screened at Danish cinemas saw an decrease of 7 per cent and reached 11,9 million tickets sold. The number of tickets sold for American films showed a modest decrease of 2 per cent, to 6,9 mil- lion tickets in 2014. In 2014, the three films seen by most people were . Danish films accounted for 27 per cent of all tickets sold in 2014. This is an decrease of 3 percent- age points compared to the previous year. The most popular Danish film was Fasan- dræberne selling 749,000 tickets in 2014. Figure 3 Tickets sold for movies Million 9 8 American movies 7 6 5 Danish movies 4 3 European movies 2 1 Other movies 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 www.statbank.dk/bio Minor fall in daily television viewing The average Dane above the age of 3 watched TV for 2 hours and 52 minutes in 2015 – a decrease of a single minute compared to the previous year. January is the month of the year, where the Danes watch the most television. In January 2015, average daily TV viewing was 3 hours and 27 minutes. In 2015, August with 2 hours and 24 minutes of daily TV viewing was the month with least time spent in front of the tele- vision. Music, entertainment and dramas are watched almost half of the time that Danes spend watching TV (44 per cent). Figure 4 Television viewing by program type. 2015 News, current affairs and debate, 22 per cent Education, information and culture, 21 per cent Music entertainment and dramas, 44 per cent Sports, 10 per cent Regional TV broadcast, 2 per cent Table 173 Statistical Yearbook 2016 Microsoft Word − 04 Culture and church.docx (X:100.0%, Y:100.0%) Created by Grafikhuset Publi PDF. Culture and National Church Musical schools In the season 2014/2015, almost 51,400 pupils that were given instrument or singing lessons in the Danish music schools. 55 per cent of the pupils were girls and the remaining 45 per cent were boys. With more than 75 per cent of the pu- pils being female, the flute, singing and the violin can be considered most popu- lar with girls. Conversely, percussion, electric guitar and electric bass can be considered boys’ instruments as more than 80 per cent of the pupils are male. Figure 5 Music school pupils by sex for the ten most popular instruments Number of pupils Boys Girls 11 000 10 000 9 000 8 000 7 000 6 000 5 000 4 000 3 000 2 000 1 000 Piano Acoustic Percussion Singing Violin Electiric Saxophone Flute Electric Synthe- guitar guitar bass sizer/key- board Theatres The audience of state subsidized theatres Admissions to state subsidized theatres reached a number of 2,1 mill. during the season of 2014/2015 which is 30,000 more than the previous season. In state subsi- dized theatres there were 630 productions in 2014/2015 and 587 productions in 2013/2014. Figure 6 Admissions to state-subsidizes theatres Million 2,5 2,0 1,5 1,0 0,5 0,0 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 www.statbank.dk/teat1, teat2 and teat3 Statistical Yearbook 2016 Microsoft Word − 04 Culture and church.docx (X:100.0%, Y:100.0%) Created by Grafikhuset Publi PDF. Culture and National Church Culture, economy and structure Sports, Radio and TV receive the largest shares of public funding Public funding for cultural activities for 2015 was DKK 23.7 billion. The distribution of funding between various cultural domains has only changed slightly from 2014. In 2015, the largest proportions of funding are allocated to Sports (20 per cent), Radio and TV (19 per cent), and Libraries (16 per cent). Figure 7 Public subsidies to cultural activities . 2015 Performing arts, 7 per cent Music, 6 per cent Radio and TV, 19 per cent Libraries, 16 per cent Museums, 7 per cent Sports, 20 per cent Other, 26 per cent www.statbank.dk/bevil02 Municipalities and government support different cultural domains The central government’s share of the total public funding for cultural activities de- creased from 57 per cent in 2014 to 55 per cent in 2015. Conversely, local municipali- ties increased their share of the funding from 43 per cent in 2014 to 45 per cent in 2015. Central government and local municipalities support different cultural do- mains. The municipal funds account for 81 per cent and 77 per cent of public funding for Sports and Libraries , respectively. On the contrary, public support is primarily funded by the central government for Performing Arts and Museums . Radio and TV are entirely funded by the central government, while public funding for Music is distributed almost equally between the central government and the municipalities. Public funding for culture is mainly in the form of operating grants The distribution of public funding by financing type is virtually unchanged from 2014. In 2015, 83 per cent of public funding for culture is in the form of operating grants while construction works receive 8 per cent and projects 6 per cent. The rest is distributed between distribution support (1.7 per cent) and personal grants (1.2 per cent). National Church Fewer members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark An increasing number of people have decided not to be members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark. The share of the Danish population with membership was 76.9 per cent on 1 January 2016. The share shows a falling tendency and made up 77.8 per cent in 2015. The share was 83.0 per cent ten years ago. Largest membership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark is seen in Western Jutland The share of members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark differs among the various regions of Denmark. The region accounting for the highest num- ber is Vestjylland, followed by Nordjylland and Sydjylland. The region with the low- est number of members is København by, followed by Københavns omegn and Nordsjælland. Statistical Yearbook 2016 Microsoft Word − 04 Culture and church.docx (X:100.0%, Y:100.0%) Created by Grafikhuset Publi PDF. Culture and National Church Figure 8 Membership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. 1 January 2016 Member of National Church Not member of National Church All Denmark København By Københavns omegn Nordsjælland Bornholm Østsjælland Vest- og Sydsjælland Fyn Sydjylland Østjylland Vestjylland Nordjylland 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Per cent www.statbank.dk/km6 Statistical Yearbook 2016 Microsoft Word − Table 154.docx (X:100.0%, Y:100.0%) Created by Grafikhuset Publi PDF. Culture and National Church Table 154 The National Danish Archives 2013 2014 number Visits to homepage 5 233 184 4 453 014 Visitors to reading rooms 30 977 26 252 Written enquiries 14 386 12 003 metres Total size of conventional holdings 435 079 440 191 Accessed records 3 513 5 112 gigabyte Total size of electronic holdings 41 572 67 411 Accessed electronic records 3 684 25 839 full-time equivalents Employees, regular 197 201 Employees, subsidised 24 18 www.statistikbanken.dk/arkiv03 Table 155 Admissions to zoological gardens and botanical gardens, etc.