Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 23 of 28 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Wallonia
- Flanders
- Brussels
The balance sheets of division 91 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 91120 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 MERAKMechelen 37.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Oasis Data & Document ManagementTurnhout 28.8 FTEfinancial year 2023
- 3 MundaneumMons 10.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 ArchiefstukBrussels 7.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 ArchiefpuntGhent 6.2 FTEfinancial year 2025
Companies
28 with this main activity- MERAK Mechelen · 37.9 FTE
- Oasis Data & Document Management Turnhout · 28.8 FTE
- SONUMA Liège · 22.0 FTE
- Mundaneum Mons · 10.6 FTE
- Archiefstuk Brussels · 7.1 FTE
- Archiefpunt Ghent · 6.2 FTE
- Algemeen Rijksarchief en Rijksarchief in de Provinciën Brussels
- Archief- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Vrouwengeschiedenis Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- Archives et Centre culturel d'Arenberg - Archief en Cultuurcentrum van Arenberg - Archiv- und Kulturzentrum von Arenberg Enghien
- ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHIQUES NAMUROISES Namur
- BELGISCH BLAUWE SCHILD-COMITE Brussels
- BIRDWING ART Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
- Centre Daily-Bul & C° La Louvière
- Centre liégeois de Documentation archivistique Liège
- Consultance Communication Documentation Information Ramillies
- Cultureel erfgoed annuntiaten Heverlee Leuven
- Dallons, Pauline sole trader · Charleroi
- FONDATION JEANNE ET CHARLES VANDENHOVE Liège
- Geheugen Collectief Antwerp
- Herz, Sophie sole trader · Ghent
- HISTORIES Schaerbeek
- Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium Brussels
- Maringer, Doriane sole trader · Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
- Meyer, Marie sole trader · Gembloux
- Panamarenko Foundation Brakel
- Samen Actief voor het Leuvens StadsArchief Leuven
- Smets, Anja sole trader · Kalmthout
- Zonnewijzerkring Vlaanderen Sint-Niklaas
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 7 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 2
- 329 Socio-cultural sector 2
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
- 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 1
- 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 1
- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 91: Libraries, archives and museums
Related activities
1 other activity| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities91110 | 153 | 2 | 1 | 202 |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 91 · financial year 2025 · 318 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 52.2% | 54.6% | 52.6% | 51.3% | 53.5% | 53.2% |
| Median net result | - | - | €6,695 | €7,042 | €5,028 | €9,529 | €14,985 | €17,081 |
| Filed late | 32.4% | 46.3% | 35.4% | 34.6% | 27.1% | 32.6% | 29.1% | - |
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Bankruptcies per year in division 91
| Per year | 2016 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| Jobs lost | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 |
2025 through May. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 91
115 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €67,900 | €58,800 to €83,500 | 41 |
| 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
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 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €416.7m awarded
- Federal transfers 172.6m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €87.0m paid
- EU budget €27.8m attributed share
- EU research €11.3m EU contribution
Insights on Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities
Inflow and structure. This activity holds 2.9% of the registrations of Libraries, archives and museums.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 91 of the 91 FTE: 100.0%.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 91120 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
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 "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 91120, 8 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.