Use Statistical data to demonstrate the size and power of the museums, archives and libraries sector:
- There are 2,500 museums and galleries throughout the UK
- There are 4,600 public libraries in the UK.
- There are over 109 million books in Higher Education libraries.
- There are over 500 health libraries in the UK.
- There are over 2,000 archives in the UK.
- There are more museums and galleries than all the 'big 4' supermarkets put together. (Source: clmg)
- There are about 100 million visits to museums and galleries in the UK per year.
- 80% of all UK Online Centres are located in public libraries
- 6.6 million pupils are served by schools library services (Library & Information Statistics Unit (LISU), Loughborough University)
- There are 116,000,000 books in UK public libraries (LISU)
- There are about a billion objects in UK museums (clmg)
