National Museum Report 2025
The National Museum Report 2025 based on the reports from our network of representatives in 39 EU countries recounts the richness and diversity of the European museum landscape.
How were museums in Europe doing in 2025?
For the eighth time European Museum Academy have the great honour to present an overview of the situation, the challenges, and the trends which museums in jEurope meet and do their best to cope with.
Based on the reports from representatives in 39 countries and including an analytical summary, the report shows the real diversity and richness of the European museum landscape.
The report shows a continued general rise in visitor numbers and for example the success of the museum card model in a growing number of countries. But the report also shows how museums in most countries are struggling with financing as constraints on public funding from governments is not easily replaced by other funding or capacity and competence among museums to earn their own revenue. The political influencing by using a principle of very short arms-length in governing is visible in every fourth country and in other countries there are reported signs of self-censorship among curators. The media is rightly interested in looking at the damage from natural disasters and the grand thefts from museums in Paris and Assen, but such news appears to overshadow what is going on behind the scenes.
This is happening in Europe at the same time as similar tendencies are seen in the United States and reported extensively by the media. For the European Museum Academy, it is important to report on the situation here to the public and to researchers, as we present our report as always to the Council of Europe and the Commission of the European Union.
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