Education, Culture and Sports in Lithuania
(edition 2020)
Activities of cultural institutions
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Activities of cultural institutions In 2019, there were 107 museums* in our country, of which 4 – national, 15 – republican, 55 – municipal, 10 – non-state and 22 – departmental museums. Over the year, the number of museum visitors totalled 5.6 million, or by 563 thousand (11 per cent) more than in 2018. The highest number of visitors was received by the Lithuanian Sea Museum (681 thousand), National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (598 thousand), Trakai History Museum (441 thousand), National Museum of Lithuania (389 thousand) and MO Museum (211 thousand). In 2019, museums organised 1,878 exhibitions, of which 164 – international (in 2018, 1,964 and 146 respectively), issued 103 publications on museum activities (in 2018, 108). The number of exhibits of the museum stock totalled 7,569.2 thousand, though only 331.6 thousand (or 4.4 per cent) of them were exhibited. In 2018, Lithuanian cinemas received 4 million cinemagoers, which is by 276 thousand less than a year ago. Over the year, one resident would visit cinema, on average, 1.4 times. Last year, the total number of cinema halls amounted to 98. In total, there were 19 thousand seats in cinemas. There were, on average, 1.1 thousand showings per cinema hall. Over the year, cinemas’ revenue generated from tickets sold decreased from EUR 22.6 million to EUR 21.6 million (or by 4.5 per cent). In 2019, there were 1 million 133 thousand registered library users in all 2,365 Lithuania’s libraries, or by 29 thousand (2.4 per cent) less than in 2018. There were, on average, 479 registered users per library. Over the year, one user would visit a library, on average, 18.7 times. The number both of libraries and readers is decreasing each year. There are 51 theatres in our country, of which – 13 public and 38 private. In 2019, they gave 7.1 thousand performances, which were visited by 1.4 million theatregoers. Over the year, the number of new and renewed performances given by public theatres reached 121. In 2019, 7 state concert agencies arranged 835 concerts; the number of visitors totalled 396 thousand. In 2019, there were 637 cultural centres in the country with 3.8 thousand amateur art groups, studies and circles, which held 57.7 thousand concerts and other cultural events. |
* Source: Museum statistics
Total number of cultural institutions
At the end of the year
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Attendance of cultural places
Per cent
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Libraries
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Cultural centres, 2019
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Museums
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Cinemas
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The latest new movies by country of origin
|
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total by country |
134 |
125 |
114 |
129 |
134 |
212 |
291 |
309 |
356 |
383 |
Spain |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
• |
4 |
United Kingdom |
4 |
5 |
5 |
6 |
11 |
19 |
10 |
5 |
7 |
26 |
United States |
102 |
95 |
87 |
93 |
81 |
108 |
162 |
158 |
142 |
138 |
Lithuania |
• |
2 |
1 |
2 |
10 |
10 |
13 |
13 |
24 |
37 |
France |
• |
4 |
7 |
7 |
9 |
20 |
32 |
31 |
23 |
45 |
Russia |
• |
4 |
- |
8 |
7 |
12 |
19 |
26 |
27 |
31 |
Germany |
• |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
11 |
4 |
4 |
7 |
13 |
Other European countries |
8 |
10 |
7 |
8 |
10 |
16 |
38 |
60 |
88 |
67 |
Other countries |
• |
4 |
4 |
- |
2 |
13 |
8 |
9 |
37 |
22 |
• Confidential data.
- Category not applicable.
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National movies
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Volumes of radio and television programmes
hours
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Structure of original programmes of radio and television
hours
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Theatre activities
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|
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
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Number of theatres |
State theatre |
13 |
13 |
13 |
13 |
13 |
13 |
13 |
13 |
13 |
13 |
Non-state theatre |
27 |
26 |
26 |
26 |
26 |
24 |
24 |
39 |
37 |
38 |
|
Number of theatregoers, thousand |
State theatre |
587 |
594 |
625 |
645 |
659 |
719 |
753 |
767 |
709 |
765 |
Non-state theatre |
271 |
256 |
233 |
407 |
564 |
735 |
526 |
628 |
643 |
698 |
|
Performances and other entertainment |
State theatre |
2,689 |
2,752 |
2,760 |
2,732 |
2,710 |
3,113 |
3,361 |
3,521 |
2,830 |
2,880 |
Non-state theatre |
1,898 |
1,768 |
1,757 |
2,190 |
2,910 |
2,988 |
2,806 |
3,757 |
3,910 |
4,243 |
|
Revenue from the sale of tickets, EUR thousand |
State theatre |
4,140 |
4,379 |
4,639 |
5,022 |
5,467 |
6,370 |
6,773 |
7,138 |
8,353 |
7,882 |
Non-state theatre |
1,127 |
920 |
929 |
1,658 |
4,540 |
5,048 |
5,738 |
6,798 |
6,393 |
7,345 |
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Activities of state concert agencies
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The function of dissemination of professional musical culture both in the country and abroad is performed by seven state concert organisations:
In addition to the direct concert activity, the above mentioned institutions arrange international festivals and competitions in the field of professional arts in our country. |
Monthly earnings of persons employed in art, entertainment and recreation activity organisation enterprises
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