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91.21
Class
Museum and collection activities
SDMX: S9121
Class Level
4 Depth
0 Children
1 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes

✓ Includes

This class includes: - operation, management, care, preservation, assessment and exhibition of collections of museums of all kinds: • museums or art museums; applied art, crafts and design museums (e.g. jewellery, furniture, costumes, ceramics, silverware) • natural history, science and technology museums, historical museums (including military museums) • other specialised museums - open-air museums, ecomuseums, digital and virtual museums - collections in historic houses and national galleries; interpretation centres for ethnographic, religious and folk art (at local or regional level) - activities of art galleries, exhibiting art (not for sale)

✗ Excludes

This class excludes: - retail sale of paintings and sculptures (activities of commercial art galleries), see 47.69 - library activities, see 91.11 - archive activities, see 91.12 - conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, see 91.30 - repair of furniture not considered cultural heritage and non-historical, see 95.24

Who is this code for?

Verified: SEMANTIC_SECTION_MATRIX

Artists

SOC 2020:3411
Common titles: Painter, Sculptor, Artist

Musicians

SOC 2020:3414
Common titles: Musician, Composer

Evidence: Representative SOC 2020 occupations for SIC Section R (Museum and collection activities).

Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) — UK SIC 2026
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