Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts
NACE 91220 · financial year 2025 · 101 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 62.7% | 62.0% | 62.6% | 54.5% | 58.4% | 58.4% |
| Median net result | €5,277 | €5,330 | €4,100 | €9,489 | €11,110 | €8,444 |
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Spread across the country
by region and province · 257 of 271 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 91220 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Abbaye-De-MaredsousAnhée 111 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 MUSEUM VAN HEDENDAAGSE KUNST ANTWERPENAntwerp 86.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Blegny-Mine a.s.b.l.Blegny 47.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 AtomiumBrussels 45.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Het Domein BokrijkGenk 41.2 FTEfinancial year 2024
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 42 companies- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 16
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 10
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 6
- 302 Hotels and catering 4
- 329 Socio-cultural sector 4
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 2
- 118 Food industry 2
- 113 Ceramics industry 1
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- 124 Construction 1
- 201 Independent retail 1
- 219 Technical inspection and conformity assessment 1
- 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 1
- 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 1
- 329.03 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 333 Tourist attractions 1
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit 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 activities91210 | 213 | 8 | 0 | 656 |
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 661 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
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €87.0m paid
- Federal transfers 172.6m amount as published
- EU budget €27.8m attributed share
- EU research €11.3m EU contribution
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Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 1.4% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Liquidity of 3.01 is above Belgium's 1.66. 6.1% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 30.6 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Wallonia holds 52.1% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 5.2% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 28.8% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 331 of the 860 FTE: 38.4%.
Direction. Median solvency fell from 62.7% in financial year 2020 to 58.4% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €5,277 in financial year 2020 to €8,444 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 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 91220 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 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the 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. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.