Table 1 Museums and collections. Visits and exhibitions. 2009

1 Museums¹ and collections. Visits and exhibitions. 2009
	Number of museums	Visits, total	Of these, individual visits	Paying visitors	Exhibitions, total	Permanent exhibitions	Temporary exhibitions	Travelling exhibitions


Total	148	10 183 842	7 632 755	4 869 775	2 964	1 541	1 139	284
Type of museum
Art museums	16	1 316 263	1 198 864	273 879	252	54	114	84
Social history museums	78	5 127 940	3 790 433	2 677 944	1 391	759	518	114
Natural history museum	9	1 253 586	1 002 011	697 476	106	80	17	9
Mixed social history/natural history museums	24	1 375 468	885 426	609 637	691	415	249	27
Mixed arts museums and social history museums	21	1 110 585	756 021	610 839	524	233	241	50
County
Østfold	5	199 427	142 301	18 380	106	41	59	6
Akershus	5	315 521	236 957	103 690	161	73	82	6
Oslo	23	3 846 063	2 971 257	1 739 331	346	152	122	72
Hedmark	7	307 260	229 057	223 669	131	79	40	12
Oppland	12	420 594	327 339	241 456	129	78	48	3
Buskerud	7	395 788	310 070	205 715	125	86	33	6
Vestfold	2	144 786	100 793	41 023	58	28	29	1
Telemark	3	202 393	171 659	62 447	122	84	31	7
Aust-Agder	4	98 422	73 255	28 095	57	40	10	7
Vest-Agder	7	219 825	157 456	67 357	111	62	36	13
Rogaland	12	527 368	325 396	260 660	171	87	75	9
Hordaland	12	1 062 463	803 834	818 693	289	172	106	11
Sogn og Fjordane	3	158 796	119 883	73 288	109	58	43	8
Møre og Romsdal	5	255 616	152 201	109 204	146	52	59	35
Sør-Trøndelag	8	969 938	754 230	243 591	159	70	70	19
Nord-Trøndelag	6	243 703	186 198	116 651	134	44	76	14
Nordland	10	428 740	328 737	294 359	338	210	113	15
Troms Romsa	8	219 553	133 017	99 869	152	66	53	33
Finnmark Finnmárku	7	131 563	84 768	91 307	102	52	43	7
Svalbard	2	36 023	24 347	30 990	18	7	11	0

¹	The figures include the open museums.
Source: Statistics Norway.