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 16.1 million visits to museums In 2015, admission rates of Danish museums reached 16.1 million visitors. Of the 254 museums included in the statistics, 130 are subsidized by the state. Museums subsidized or owned by the state had 12.7 million visitors in 2015, equal to 79 per cent of the total number of visitors in 2015. In 2015, 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 725,000 visitors. With a total of 580,000 visitors, Rundetårn is now ranked as num- ber two. Figure 1 Museums - the ten highest admission rates Louisiana Museum Rundetårn The National Museum, Prinsens Palais 2015 ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum 2014 Moesgård Museum The Old Town The Danish National Gallery Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek The Rosenborg Collection Frederiksborg 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 26,8 million in 2015, which is 0,8 million fewer loans than the year before. This is a decrease of 3 per cent. In 2015 the number of downloads was 2,6 mio. e-books. This is an increase of 1 mio. additional downloads compared to the previous year. Figure 2 Lending from public libraries. 2014 Books, 75.6 per cent Audio books, 2.9 per cent Music, 5.2 per cent Film, 9.0 per cent Multimedia, 1.6 per cent Periodicals, 4.7 per cent Other, 1.0 per cent www.statbank.dk/bib1 Statistical Yearbook 2017 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 2015 to 2016 the number of tickets sold for films screened at Danish cinemas saw a decrease of 6 per cent and reached 12,9 million tickets sold. The number of tickets sold for European films showed a decrease of 30 per cent, to 1,8 million tick- ets in 2016. Danish films accounted for 21 per cent of all tickets sold in 2016. This is a decrease of 3 percentage points compared to the previous year. The most popular Danish film was Flaskepost fra P selling 687,842 tickets in 2016. 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 2015 2016 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 170 Statistical Yearbook 2017 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 2015/2016, almost 50,700 pupils were given instrument or singing lessons in the Danish music schools. 56 per cent of the pupils were girls and the remaining 44 per cent were boys. With more than 75 per cent of the pupils being female, the flute, singing and the violin can be considered most popular 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 0 Piano Acoustic Percussion Singing Violin Electric Saxophone Flute Electric Trumpet/ guitar guitar bass cornet www.statbank.dk/MUSKOL02 Theatres Every fourth spectator to the performing arts are under 25 years Slightly more than one out of four spectators who attends a performing arts produc- tion are children and adolescents under 25 years. As a new feature details of specta- tors from season 2015/2016 are divided between adults and children/adolescents under 25 years of age. Statistical Yearbook 2017 Microsoft Word − 04 Culture and church.docx (X:100.0%, Y:100.0%) Created by Grafikhuset Publi PDF. Culture and National Church Figure 6 Shares of young spectators 5 pct. + 1.00 - 5.00 pct. 0.50 - 0.99 pct. 0 - 0.5 pct. © Geodatastyrelsen Culture, economy and structure Sports, Radio and TV receive the largest shares of public funding Public funding for cultural activities for 2016 was DKK 23.3 billion. The distribution of funding between various cultural domains has only changed slightly from 2015. In2016, the largest proportions of funding are allocated to Sports (20 per cent), Ra- dio and TV (19 per cent), and Libraries (15 per cent). Figure 7 Public subsidies to cultural activities . 2016 Performing arts, 7 per cent Music, 6 per cent Radio and TV, 19 per cent Libraries, 15 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 in- creased from 55 per cent in 2015 to 56 per cent in 2016. Conversely, local municipal- ities decreased their share of the funding from 45 per cent in 2015 to 44 per cent in2016. Central government and local municipalities support different cultural do- mains. The municipal funds account for 78 per cent and 76 per cent of public fund- Statistical Yearbook 2017 Microsoft Word − 04 Culture and church.docx (X:100.0%, Y:100.0%) Created by Grafikhuset Publi PDF. Culture and National Church ing for Sports and Libraries , respectively. On the contrary, public support is pri- marily funded by the central government for Performing Arts and Museums . Radio and TV are entirely funded by the central government, while public funding for Mu- sic is distributed almost equally between the central government and the municipali- ties. Public funding for culture is mainly in the form of operating grants The distribution of public funding by financing type is virtually unchanged from 2015. In 2016, 85 per cent of public funding for culture is in the form of operating grants while construction works receive 6 per cent and projects 6 per cent. The rest is distributed between distribution support (2 per cent) and personal grants (1per 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 75.9 per cent on 1 January 2017. The share shows a falling tendency and made up 76.9 per cent in 2016. The share was 82.6 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. Figure 8 Membership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. 1 January 2017 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 2017 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 2014 2015 number Visits to homepage 4 453 014 3 675 528 Visitors to reading rooms 26 252 24 519 Written enquiries 12 003 14 078 metres Total size of conventional holdings 440 191 451 488 Accessed records 5 112 11 297 gigabyte Total size of electronic holdings 67 411 92 897 Accessed electronic records 25 839 25 486 full-time equivalents Employees, regular 201 202 Employees, subsidised 18 16 www.statistikbanken.dk/arkiv03 Table 155 Admissions to zoological gardens and botanical gardens, etc. 2014 2015 Total number of zoological gardens 28 28 thousands Admissions total 4 930 4 898 Of which: Københavns Zoo 1 137 1 148 Danmarks Akvarium, Den Blå Planet 768 603 Givskud Zoo 300 392 Aalborg Zoo 416 381 Odense Zoo 340 354 Randers Regnskov 247 251 Knuthenborg Safaripark 239 237 Jesperhus Resort 200 195 Nordsømuseet, Nordsøen Oceanium 155 175 Ree Park - Ebeltoft Safari Gravlev 162 171 Jyllands Park Zoo 152 153 Kattegatcentret 129 138 AQUA Silkeborg 116 100 Guldborgsund Zoo & Botanisk Have 74 70 Blåvand Zoo 55 68 Fjord - og bæltcentret i Kerteminde 46 60 Den Geografiske Have 55 54 Skandinavisk Dyrepark, Nødager 47 52 Jyllandsakvariet 43 50 Birkegårdens Haver 35 41 Øresundsakvariet 46 40 Odsherred Zoo - Dyrepark 45 40 Skærup Zoo 35 37 Note: Figures on the individual zoological gardens include zoological gardens for which the number of www.statbank.dk/mus visitors has been stated for both years and have had more than 30,000 visitors in 2015 only.