Efficiency of Polish Museums‘ Activities in Terms of Attracting Visitors and Event Participants

Question: The Museum has a statute or regulations agreed with the minister competent for culture and national heritage,

Question: Types of museum/section (art, archaeological, historical, etc.)

Section 2. Museum collections, live specimens (Categories of exhibits/deposits)

Question: Does the Museum keep electronic records of collections?

Section: Museum collections, live specimens (in inventory items, in pieces)

Section: Collections and records

Section: Cataloguing

Section: Control of registration documentation with the actual state of affairs and losses

Section: Digitization process of collections

Questions:

Did the museum have storage rooms?

Was the storage space sufficient for the current harvest quantity?

Did the museum control the environmental conditions of storing the collections in warehouses?

What factors were controlled in the collection warehouses?

What percentage of the area of the collection warehouses was provided with satisfactory/inappropriate environmental conditions?

Did the museum control the environmental conditions in the exhibition spaces?

What factors were controlled in the exhibition spaces?

What percentage of the exhibition areas were provided with satisfactory/inappropriate environmental conditions?

Was there a fire route to the museum?

Which fixed fire extinguishing devices (SUG)12 were used in the museum to protect the collection rooms?

Section: Fire protection

Section: Technical security

Section: Physical Security

Section: Preparing the museum for special events

Section: Exhibitions in Poland, Section: Exhibitions abroad (Temporary, permanent: number of exhibitions and number of visitors),

Section: on-line activities (exhibitions)

Section: Other cultural, scientific and educational activities (museum lessons and workshops)

Section: On-line activities (educational and popularisation activities: number of activities and number of participants)

Section: Other cultural, scientific and educational activities (Curatorial tours),

Section: Digitization of collections (Number of digitized items: available in digital catalogs)

Questions:

- A facility adapted to the needs of people with disabilities?

- Exhibitions adapted to the needs of people with disabilities?

Section: Visitors (number of visitors according to various criteria, e.g. in organized groups, foreigners)

Questions:

Were the permanent exhibitions accessible in accordance with the Act of 19 July 2019 on ensuring accessibility for people with special needs in terms of architecture, information and communication, and digital?

Were self-guided tours offered for at least one of the permanent exhibitions? Was guided tour/museum educator offered for the permanent exhibitions?

I: Staff, No. of facilities and equipment

Inter. I/O: No. of exhibitions scheduled, No. of dissemination & educational activities, No. publications (research and dissemination)

C-O: Surface area of museum in m², No. of open rooms to public in the museum

O: Collection movement (loans, acquisitions, addictions), No. Total visitors (free and fees)

SBM:

I: Surface area of museum in m², No. of facilities and equipment, Museum staff

O: No. of exhibitions scheduled, No. of publications (research and dissemination), No. of dissemination and educational activities, Visitors

NSBM:

I: Surface area of museum in m², No. of facilities and equipment, Museum staff

Inter. I/O: No. of exhibitions scheduled, No. of publications (research and dissemination), No. of dissemination and educational activities

O: Visitors

I: Building Area, Number of curators employed, Number of Special exhibitions, Operational Costs

O: Total number of visitors, Percentage of visitors who returned to the museum, Loyal visitor rate (Percentage of visitors who visited the museum more than five times)

I: Square measure, Number of collections, Number of staff, A curator’s rate, Access distance, Ambient population, Exchange population, A held expense, Store items purchase cost, Education spread cost, Maintenance repair cost

Inter. I/O: Number of the pay viewers, Number of extension service mobilization (1998–2003), Number of volunteer members, Number of associate members O: Short term income, Number of outside activities, Number of users, long term income

I: the number of employees and the contribution of the founder (which express as the difference between the total costs and the museum’s own revenues)

O: the number of visitors to the museum, the number of exhibitions, and the number of expositions

I: Number of branches, Own facilities, Number of expositions, Collection (number), Capital expenditures, Total expenditures, Operating costs, Employees, Expert staff, Average salaries of employees

O: Digitalization, New expositions, Maintenance of collections, new collections (number pcs of collection objects), Exhibitions, Own exhibitions, Events, Visitors, Foreign visitors, Non-paying visitors, Editorial activities, Grants and donations, Revenues, Earned returns