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In general, the spanish museums Not only have they recovered the visitor numbers they had before the pandemic; many of them have broken their records, something that does not happen in countries like Great Britain or the United States, where they still suffer. Until 3.241.263 personas (33.51% more than in 2022) visited the Prado’s permanent collection in the Villanueva building and its temporary exhibitions in the Jerónimos building in 2023, which represents a historical record, improving the figures of 2019, the year of the bicentennial of the art gallery (3,203,417). 48.10% accessed it for free. These data confirm a recovery of public confidence and interest, according to those responsible for the Prado. Last year the museum opened for 362 days. With a total of 3,537 opening hours, the daily average of visitors was 8,954: the day of maximum influx, Wednesday, December 27 (14,345). In 2023, the museum obtained 25,971,283 euros in revenue from ticket saleshigher by 8.6 million than in 2022.
The general profile of the Prado audience remains young (35% are between 18 and 34 years old), but the average age of the visitor (45 years) is older than that of 2022 (38 years). The public is mostly female (57%), with higher education (81%) and with stable employment (56%). Half of the visitors that the Prado received in 2023 come from abroad (50.3%), very similar to 2022. The presence of Asian visitors increases compared to previous years.
The Guggenheim Bilbao also had the best year in its history. In 2023 it achieved its absolute record with 1,324,221 visitors (35,074 more than in 2022), of which 1,152,072 came from outside the Basque Country. The museum has recovered the level of foreign visitors prior to the pandemic, with 60% of the total: 16% came from France, 7% from Germany, 6% from Great Britain, 6% from the United States and 4 % from Italy. Among the most viewed exhibitions, that of the Japanese Yayoi Kusama. The same has happened in the Sorolla Museum, visited by 338,265 people (an absolute record of visitors) on the centenary of the painter’s death.
National Heritage It has also broken its historical record for annual visits. A total of 6,370,770 people attended the palaces, monasteries and green spaces that it manages in six autonomous communities in 2023. This figure exceeds the visitors registered the previous year by more than one million and is 19% more than in 2019, the period in which it achieved its previous record, with 5,334,273 visits. The Royal Palace of Madrid stands out with 1,421,428 visitors; the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (445,166) and the Gallery of the Royal Collections (336,058), which opened its doors on June 29 with four free open days.
With 779,279 visitors throughout 2023, its best historical figure, the Picasso Museum Málaga exceeds the figure reached in 2019 by almost 60,000 thousand people. The museum, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary and commemorated the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, The year ended with two good news: the signing of the V collective agreement of its workers, which had become entrenched, and the appointment of a new director, Miguel López-Remiro. And speaking of the artist from Malaga, the Picasso Year closed with more than three million visitors, who attended the 46 exhibitions organized around the world.
The Reina Sofía received 2,530,560 visitors at its three headquarters in Madrid (3,063,092 in 2022), of which 1,409,113 correspond to the main headquarters (Sabatini and Nouvel), which represents an increase of 20% compared to 2022 (1,171,367). He crystal Palaceclosed since April to carry out improvement works on its facilities, received 479,281 visitors in 2023 (1,318,823 in 2022), and the Velázquez Palace 536,425 (491,086 in 2022). Ticket collection has increased significantly, which has grown by 29% compared to 2022.
More than one million people (1,012,660, specifically) have visited the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions of the Thyssen Museum throughout 2023, a figure slightly below 2022, when it received 1,073,183 visitors. It is the seventh year that the figure of one million people has been exceeded in the history of the museum, with 60.9% of national origin (40.3% from Madrid and 20.6% from the rest of Spain). The most viewed exhibition was ‘Lucian Freud. New perspectives’, with 180,014 visitors.
In Barcelonathe Picasso Year has served, above all, to revitalize the figures of the Picasso Museum, which for the first time since 2019 exceeds the barrier of one million attendees and closes the year with 1,032,400 visitors. For now, the star exhibition of the season, dedicated to the relationship between Miró and the cubist genius, has already attracted more than 200,000 visitors in just three months. Also the Miró Foundation of Barcelona, which shares an exhibition with the Picasso Museum, closes the year on the rise and is at almost pre-pandemic levels thanks to the 360,000 visitors (in 2019 there were 364,514) who have gone up to Montjuïc. In the absence of squaring up definitive numbers, the Macbeh It has closed 2023 with around 280,000 visitors, increasingly closer to the border of 300,000, although still far from the 350,000 that passed through the Meier building before the pandemic; Meanwhile he MNACwithout data yet available, hopes to exceed the 550,000 visitors in 2022 without too many problems.
A total of 4,349,926 people went to the centers last year CaixaForum and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum. The latter has broken its audience record (1,266,989). The second most visited has been CaixaForum Valencia (899,339), which opened in June 2022. CaixaForum Madrid received 655,422 people and CaixaForum Barcelona, 483,852.
The Mapfre Foundation organized in 2023, at its headquarters in Madrid and Barcelona, a total of 13 exhibitions with 344,627 visitors, 67% more than the previous year: 276,446 in Madrid and 68,181 in Barcelona. The most visited exhibition was the one dedicated to Leonora Carrington with 89,481 visitors.
For its part, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) welcomed 202,540 visitors last year (15.6% more than in 2022).
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