Culture-thirsty Hungarians

According to the reports of GfK, every second Hungarian went to at least one museum in 2016. Almost third of the Hungarian population chooses to visit museums, exhibitions and galleries in their free time.

Even though the majority of people think that the Night of Museums, Night of Theatres, Night of Choirs are only visited by a narrow circle of people, a survey conducted by the Society for Consumer Research (known as GfK) states that actually third of the population enjoys these kinds of leisure time activities.

Last year, 35% of Hungarian residents visited at least one museum or exhibition, in 2015, 34.4%, so there were no significant changes. However, the age groups had different habits in 2016 as compared to 2015: in 2015, people aged 15-29 went to museums more frequently than the older generation, but in 2016, there are no significant differences between the groups. In 2015, women were more interested in museums and galleries than men, but in 2016, the scales were equal.

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People residing in Budapest or in Central Transdanubia went to museums more frequently than the rest of the country: in the Northern Hungarian Plain only 24% of the residents visited galleries, while in Budapest, every second person. Apart from Budapest, the bigger towns, with at least 50 thousand residents show above-average museum-visiting rates. Check out the 2016 numbers in percent: