Museum attendance exploded in 2024, here are the figures!

Museum attendance exploded in 2024, here are the figures!

Beautiful performance for Toulouse! In 2024, museums, monuments and scientific culture establishments in the pink city attracted millions of curious ; And much more than last year! Proof, in figures, that the Toulousains are more and more interested in cultural and eager outings of new discoveries.

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3.400,000, an increase of 2 % compared to 2023. This is the number of visitors that have grown the doors of museums, monuments and scientific culture establishments in the pink city in 2024.

Toulouse, especially since the emblematic Musée des Augustins completely closed in 2024 to finish its work for its reopening in December 2025. And that the Gallery of the Water Castle , the very first French museum dedicated to photography, will not reopen until next November.

TOP 3 museums that have broken their attendance record

In terms of attendance, cultural sites, but also monuments have made their best year in 2024 . This is the case of these three local sites:

  • The Saint-Raymond Museum , which has increased 43%of its visitors' increase thanks, in particular, to the success of the big exhibition "Cathars". Toulouse in the crusade which, on its own, drained 90,874 people (and 119,830 at the Jacobins convent, the second site of the exhibition).
  • the Carmelite Chapel , has gathered nearly 140,000 visitors over the year, + 28 % compared to last year .
  • the Saint-Sernin basilica who, with his new rosette made by the artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, brought together more 898,000 curious (+ 12 %) on a year.

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    a balance between tourists and Toulouse

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    Finally, all these Toulouse establishments have obviously found a balance between local anchoring and attractiveness: around 50 % of visitors came from the Toulouse metropolis and almost 15 % were, in 2024, holidaymakers .

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    for his part, The slaughterhouse museum also met his audience in 2024 Oli who had carte blanche for the occasion and who brought together no less than 35,000 visitors in a month and a half. An exhibition to (re) discover until May 4, 2025. Note that this museum, located on the Charles de Fitte alleys, found its visitors in 2023 thanks to the exceptional exhibition on Niki de Saint Phalle (163. 000 admirers in total).

    without forgetting that, for the first time in France and since the month of December, the Dutch artist and genius M.C. Escher settled in the Bazacle space (to see until March 30, 2025) and that the latter is also a full card!

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