Quick facts on the Government of Canada Survey of Heritage Institutions

2017 Financial and operating data on not-for-profit heritage institutions, including museums, art galleries, archives, historic sites, zoos and botanical gardens

Physical visits

• Physical visits: 79 million

School groups

• School Groups: 127,284 (equals approximately 6.4 million students)

Online

• Online visits: 254 million

Volunteers

• Number of Volunteers: 114,425
• Number of volunteer hours: 6 million (the equivalent of 3,000 full-time jobs)

Exhibitions

• Number of permanent exhibitions: 15,291
• Number of exhibitions created: 8,947
• Number of exhibitions circulated: 3,126
• Number of exhibitions online: 3,557

Heritage workforce

• Number of paid workers: 37,230
• Percentage of paid workers that are full time: 35%
• Percentage of paid workers that are part time: 54%
• Percentage of paid contract workers: 11%

Research requests

• Number of research requests: 1.1 million

Source of funding

• Total heritage sector revenue: $2.62 billion
• Funding from public sector: 51.8%
• Funding from Interest/investment: 1.5%
• Funding from private sector: 13.5%
• Funding from earned revenues: 33.2%