Museum and collection activities

This class includes:

• operation, management, care, preservation, assessment and exhibition of collections of museums of all kinds:
  • museums or art museums; applied art, crafts and design museums (e.g. jewellery, furniture, costumes, ceramics, silverware)
  • natural history, science and technology museums, historical museums (including military museums)
  • other specialised museums
• open-air museums, ecomuseums, digital and virtual museums
• collections in historic houses and national galleries; interpretation centres for ethnographic, religious and folk art (at local or regional level)
• activities of art galleries, exhibiting art (not for sale)

This class excludes:

• retail sale of paintings and sculptures (activities of commercial art galleries), see 47.69
• library activities, see 91.11
• archive activities, see 91.12
• conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, see 91.30
• repair of furniture not considered cultural heritage and non-historical, see 95.24