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Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities

NACE 91120 · division 91 Libraries, archives and museums
Current registrations 28division 91: 961
Starters, 12 months 35division 91 · 3.6 per 100 · Belgium 7.5
Employment (FTE) 4,770division 91 · financial year 2025
Median age 18.8 yearsdivision 91 · Belgium 10.7 years

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 91 · financial year 2025 · 319 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
53.3%
Belgium 46.2%
Median net result
€11,428
Belgium €16,554
Median equity
€479,178
Belgium €98,547
Loss-making
35.7%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
11.4%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
2.8%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.41
Belgium 1.66

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 91

115 employers
Median
€67,500
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€56,500 to €79,100
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
35 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €67,900 €58,800 to €83,500 41
10 to 49 FTE €64,300 €51,600 to €75,300 65

Spread across the country

by region and province · 23 of 28 enterprises with a registered office on file
  • Wallonia 8 · 34.8%
  • Flanders 8 · 34.8%
  • Brussels 7 · 30.4%
fewer moremax 7

Largest employers

NACE division 91 · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van AntwerpenAntwerp 382 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 NATUUR EN LANDSCHAPSZORG , MAATWERKBEDRIJFMechelen 287 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten AntwerpenAntwerp 122 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Abbaye-De-MaredsousAnhée 111 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 MUSEUM VAN HEDENDAAGSE KUNST ANTWERPENAntwerp 86.0 FTEfinancial year 2025

1 of the 660 companies in NACE division 91 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Ireland (1). Together they employ 29 of the division's 3,210 FTE: 0.9%, against 15% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €416.7m awarded 118 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Aankoopsubsidie met het oog op erkenning als natuurreservaat
  • Federal transfers 172.6m amount as published 19 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan de Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis. (KMKG)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €87.0m paid 145 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

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Insights on Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities

The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 91 is lower than that of 82% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.

This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.

The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 91 is 0.0%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 727 scored companies.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 03-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 91120 exists.

The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.

The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 91, not only NACE 91120. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait.