Culture monitor
The Culture Monitor is an instrument by and for the cultural sector. The monitor brings together data on developments in cultural life and thus aims to contribute to a strong cultural sector in the Netherlands.
Domains
Domains within the Culture Monitor can be compared to cultural 'disciplines' or 'subsectors'. The various domain pages provide key figures and show the important trends and developments per domain.
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Architecture
The domain page Architecture addresses developments within the field of spatial designers in the Netherlands. Architecture as a domain includes the four disciplines architecture, urban development, interior architecture and garden and landscape architecture.
Audiovisual
The Audiovisual domain page focuses on developments within the audiovisual sector in the Netherlands. It offers figures and explanations about the production, distribution and consumption of feature films and series in particular via cinemas, movie theaters and streaming services.
Visual arts
The Visual Arts domain page discusses developments around the (labour) market position of visual artists and the associated challenges. It also looks at museums, art consumption and digitisation, among other things.
Design
On the Design domain page, topics covered include the labour market, designers' problem-solving capacity, and trends such as bio-design and AI design. Other hot topics include social design and sustainability.
Heritage
The Heritage domain page addresses developments within the heritage sector in the Netherlands. It provides figures and explanations about movable, immovable, intangible and digital heritage and considers issues surrounding the cultural significance of heritage.
Games
On the Games domain page, we discuss developments in the production, distribution and consumption of digital games, as well as the infrastructure supporting them. As the games industry is inherently international, both Dutch and international data and insights are used.
Literature
The Literature domain page contains figures and information about the creators and readers of so-called general books, as well as about organisations such as publishers, bookstores and libraries that form the links between them.
Performing arts
The Performing Arts domain page provides figures on the number of performances and visits by discipline and the number of people employed in the performing arts.
Themes
Theme pages describe policy themes and topics of interest to the entire cultural sector.
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Professional practice
The theme page Professional Practice contains data on the composition of the cultural labour market. We look at income and turnover, the position of self-employed persons, professional practice and the associated codes.
Culture and money flows
The Culture and Financial Flows theme page examines the sources of funding for the cultural sector in the Netherlands. It provides figures and explanations about financial flows from governments, private contributions and the sector's own income.
Culture across the regions
Where are the most venues, libraries, cinemas or museums located? To what extent is culture visited? The theme page describes (developments in) cultural offer, participation and money flows at the provincial level.
Digital transformation
The Digital Transformation page provides insight into how digital transformation is changing the cultural sector and the various domains within it.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
On this theme page, we explore research on Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the Dutch cultural sector: what issues are there and what makes monitoring complex?
Sustainability
The climate crisis and sustainability are increasingly important themes. This data story describes how the cultural sector is working on sustainability, what role the climate crisis plays in the work of creators, and what the consequences of climate change may be for the sector.
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