Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities

NACE 91020

Current registrations170

Starters, 12 months · division 9136

Employment (FTE) · division 914,760

Median age · division 9118.7 years

In NACE division 91, 3.7 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 82% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 04-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 91

fiscal year 2025 · median over 224 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

52.4%

higher than 86% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€395,881

higher than 85% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€17,081

higher than 53% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

224

Foreign control in NACE division 91

660 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.2%

1 of 660; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

0.9%

29 of 3,225 FTE; Belgium 14%

Mostly from Ireland (1).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 91

114 employers

Median

€67,500

Belgium €61,300

Middle half

€56,800 to €79,200

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

34 of 78

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€69,300	€59,100 to €83,700	40
10 to 49 FTE	€64,300	€51,600 to €75,300	65

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

1.18%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 52% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 91 is 0.0%, against 0.2% nationally, over 731 scored companies. Comparison: as of 04-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 158 of 170 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 64 · 40.5%

Wallonia 59 · 37.3%

Brussels 35 · 22.2%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
21-05-2025	ATELIER 34 ZERO MUZEUM BE 0561.774.015
28-12-2022	Cristal Discovery BE 0676.842.838

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 20

East Flanders OVL 9

Antwerp ANT 21

Flemish Brabant VLB 8

Limburg LIM 6

Brussels BRU 35

Hainaut HAI 15

Walloon Brabant WBR 8

Namur NAM 11

Liège LIE 18

Luxembourg LUX 7

fewer moremax 35

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €428.6m awarded 116 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Roerend cultureel erfgoed: Werkingssubsidie voor een collectiebeherende organisatie (Cultureelerfgoeddecreet 2021)
Federal transfers 170.8m amount as published 15 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan de Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis. (KMKG)
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €87.0m paid 144 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Conventions et contrats programmes indexés dans le domaine des bibliothèques
EU budget €27.8m attributed share 18 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Programme for Environment and Climate Action
EU research €11.3m eu contribution 9 recipients · 2008 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

Explore every recipient in this sector

How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2008 nomenclature, the one in which code 91020 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 91, not NACE 91020 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.