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Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities

Current registrations 166division 91: 962
Employment (FTE) 1,40033 employers · latest accounts
Median age 19.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 85.5%142 of 166 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No starter in the past twelve months. No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.

Filed accounts

NACE 91420 · financial year 2025 · 84 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
49.9%
division 53.5% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€24,498
division €11,254 · Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€595,320
division €479,301 · Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
28.6%
division 35.8% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
8.4%
division 11.1% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
4.8%
division 2.8% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.84
division 2.43 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
20.9%
financial year 2024, 86 filings · division 29.1% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
3.3%
of 90 companies with annual accounts · division 6.9% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 48.9%50.2%48.4%48.0%45.2%49.9%
Median net result €7,342€25,820€7,871€9,568€28,239€24,498

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
1
0.60% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
1
6.0 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
28-12-2022 IMMOBILIERE DU VAL-SAINT-LAMBERT
BE 0447.414.973

Every bankruptcy in division 91, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 143 of 166 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 89 · 62.2%
  • Wallonia 47 · 32.9%
  • Brussels 5 · 3.5%
  • Abroad 2 · 1.4%
fewer moremax 22

Largest employers

NACE 91420 as first main activity · 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 Natuurpunt Beheer, vereniging voor natuurbeheer en landschapszorg in VlaanderenMechelen 207 FTEfinancial year 2023
  4. 4 GoodPlanet BelgiumIxelles 63.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 FORESTIATheux 44.0 FTEfinancial year 2026

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 30 companies
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 12
  • 329 Socio-cultural sector 5
  • 302 Hotels and catering 4
  • 333 Tourist attractions 4
  • 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 3
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 2
  • 102.01 Quarries 1
  • 144 Agriculture 1
Show the 2 others
  • 146 Forestry 1
  • 327.01 Sheltered and social workshops 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 activities91410 96 2 0 -

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 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 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

Balance sheet and result. Liquidity of 2.84 is above Belgium's 1.66. Return on equity of 4.8% is below Belgium's 15.9%. The median net result of €24,498 is above Belgium's €16,500.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 19.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 13.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Wallonia holds 33.3% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 20.9% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 983 of the 1,400 FTE: 70.2%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 48.9% in financial year 2020 to 49.9% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €7,342 in financial year 2020 to €24,498 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 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 91420 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 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 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.