Museums and Galleries (Attendance Figures)

HC Deb 17 January 1983 vol 35 cc36-7W

Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will publish in the Official Report the attendance figures for 1982 reported by the national museums and galleries in Scotland, broken down to the individual institutions but comprising their outstations, with figures in each case of the percentage increase or decrease on the attendance figures for 1981.

Mr. Alexander Fletcher

The information is as follows:

	1982	Percentage change since 1981
National Galleries of Scotland	346,222	-3.1
National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland	130,422	+5.9

	1982	Percentage change since 1981
Royal Scottish Museum	625,102	+1.3

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) are the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG). Since the SNPG shares a building and entrance with the National Museum of Antiquities (NMAS) its attendances are included in the NMAS figure and not in that of NGS.