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Collection: Singapore Cultural Statistics

Dataset: Visitorship to National Museums and Heritage Institutions

Arts & Culture

Visitorship to National Museums and Heritage Institutions

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:39 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_618a1224b896b436ce650be1f77c804e"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. (2021). Visitorship to National Museums and Heritage Institutions (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 7, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_618a1224b896b436ce650be1f77c804e/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

06 May 2021

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

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Arts & Culture

Visitorship to National Museums and Heritage Institutions

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:39 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

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Data explorer

VisitorshiptoNationalMuseumsandHeritageInstitutions.csv (77 rows, 2.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Museum Text	Visitorship Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)7.8%
2013	Asian Civilisations Museum	452384
2013	National Museum of Singapore	1199031
2013	The Peranakan Museum	373929
2013	Singapore Art Museum	728978
2013	Former Ford Factory	39301
2013	Singapore Philatelic Museum	117466
2013	Reflections at Bukit Chandu	44093
2013	Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall	101544
2013	Malay Heritage Centre	152345
2013	Indian Heritage Centre	-

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Museum	museum	Text	-	-
Visitorship	visitorship	Numeric	Number	-

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