SBI 91.21.1—Activities of museums

Where 91.21.1 sits

1. S Arts, sports and recreation
2. 91 Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities
3. 91.2 Museum, collection, historical site and monument activities
4. 91.21 Museum and collection activities
5. 91.21.1 Activities of museums

What 91.21.1 includes

• Operating, managing, caring for, preserving, assessing, and exhibiting all types of museum collections: • museums or art museums, museums of applied arts (e.g., jewelry, furniture, costumes, ceramics, silverware) • natural history, science, and technology museums, historical museums, including military museums • other specialized museums
• Open-air museums, eco-museums, and digital and virtual museums
• Collections in historic houses and national museums, centers for the interpretation of ethnographic, religious, and folk art at the local and regional level
• Collecting, conserving, systematically inventorying, describing, and making accessible to everyone through exhibition of manifestations of cultures or inanimate material formed by nature, whereby the objects in question are not transferred (loaned, rented, sold) to the public, but remain in the possession or on loan of the museum.

What 91.21.1 excludes

• Activities of other presentation and exhibition spaces, see 91219
• Retail trade in paintings and sculptures (by commercial art galleries), see 47690
• Activities of libraries, see 91111 , 91119
• Activities of archives, see 91120
• Preservation and restoration of cultural heritage, see 9130
• Repair of furniture that is not considered cultural heritage and is not of historical importance, see 95240

91.21.1 in other systems