Culture

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Cultural financing

15.04.2024 – Public cultural funding in 2021 including data on Covid-19 aid in the cultural sector as well as cultural expenditure by private households in 2021

(in French or German)

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Libraries

16.11.2023 – Detailed Swiss Library Statistics figures for the year 2022 with the results of the new thematic module on library personnel

(in French, German or Italian)

 
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Film and Cinema

11.03.2024 – The final results for the film year 2023 and the first provisional data per week for 2024 in a monthly updated interactive chart

(in French or German, interactive chart in English)

 
 
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Cultural economy

10.10.2023 – The latest figures on cultural enterprises in 2021, with the value added of the cultural sector and the trends compared with previous years

(mainly in French or German)

At a glance

Key figures
Evolution of cinema admissions (2022–2023)
Evolution of film views on SVoD (2021-2022)
+21%
+2%
Number of libraries accessible to public (2022) 1'480
Number of museums (2021) 1'081
Number of protected historic monuments (2016) 75'084
Proportion of the population who has been to a concert (2019)
72%
Public cultural financing (2021)
CHF 2.99 billion
Expenditures of private households for culture incl. media (2021) CHF 14.1 billion
Number of cultural enterprises (2021)
Number of cultural workers (2022)
65'369
268'000
Source: FSO

Further information

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Monuments

Historic monuments, archaeological zones and historic towns and settlements

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