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Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities

Current registrations 96division 91: 962
Starters, 12 months 22.1 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Median age 9.6 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 87.5%84 of 96 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 70 of 96 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 37 · 52.9%
  • Wallonia 29 · 41.4%
  • Brussels 4 · 5.7%
fewer moremax 17

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 6 companies
  • 333 Tourist attractions 3
  • 302 Hotels and catering 2
  • 145 Horticulture 1
  • 329 Socio-cultural sector 1
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
  • 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health 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 activities91420 166 0 0 1,400

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 91 · financial year 2025 · 318 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
53.5%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€11,254
Belgium €16,516
Median equity
€479,301
Belgium €98,395
Loss-making
35.8%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
11.1%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
2.8%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.43
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
29.1%
financial year 2024, 230 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
6.9%
of 350 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
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 year20162018201920202022202320242025
Bankruptcies31211721
Jobs lost51211744

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
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

1 of the 662 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 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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Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Wallonia holds 41.4% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 27.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 9.6 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 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 91410 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 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 91410, 25 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.