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In Romania, 62% of inhabitants have never stepped into a museum, and only 33% go in once or several times a year, according to the 2019 Cultural Consumption Barometer. Since that time, before the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, polls on museum attendance have not been run, but no radical change seems to be in sight. However, experts believe these are worrying figures, but that they should not scare us. We asked sociologist Dan Petre to explain:

“We definitely should not panic. What I believe is constructive for geting out of this situation is to put pressure on museums to become more attractive and interesting. I mean, I would have a more capitalist approach, so to say, as follows: consumers have no obligation to visit museums, they have no obligation to expand their general knowledge. It is the museums who have the duty to make the experience they offer more attractive, so that they can get on the agenda for spare time for people, for consumers. This seems to me to ....

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