KBLI 9121—Collection and Museum Activities

Where 9121 sits

1. S Arts, Sports, and Recreation
2. 91 Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Other Cultural Activities
3. 912 Museum Activities, Collecting, Historic Sites, and Monuments
4. 9121 Collection and Museum Activities

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 91211 Government-Managed Museum
• 91212 Privately Managed Museum

What 9121 includes

• This sub-category includes the activities of operating, managing, maintaining, preserving, assessing and exhibiting collections of various types of museums, like
• Art museum, design museum and applied arts crafts For example jewelry, furniture, clothing, pottery (ceramics), and silverware;
• Museums of technology, science and natural history, historical museums, including military museums;
• Other specialized museums;
• Open-air museums, ecomuseums, and digital and virtual museums;
• Collections in historic buildings and national galleries, interpretation centers for ethnographic and folk art, both local and regional.
• In-house services, such as restoration of works of art and museum collections.

What 9121 excludes

• Retail sale of paintings and sculptures (commercial activities of art galleries), see class 4769;
• Library activities, see group 911;
• Archival activities, see class 9112;
• Restoration of works of art and museum collections if not carried out by units classified in group 912, See group 913;
• Preventive conservation of works of art if not carried out by units classified in group 912, See group 913;
• Furniture restoration (except museum restoration), see class 9524.

9121 in other systems