Why don't we go more to museums?
Our 'museum' health is not going through its best moment. Only 40% of Spaniards visited a museum in the last year, according to data from the sociological study that the Prado Museum has been carried out within the framework of its 200th anniversary to determine the perception, opinion and image that the Spaniards have of the art gallery and try to understand some other issues, among them, that of visiting habits.
From this survey 3,321 individuals between the ages of 18 and 65 spread throughout Spain, it follows that we have good intentions. At least, if we take into account that the 87.13% of those asked stated that they would like to go to the museum more. However, something gets in the way of turning intention into action.
Only 5.70% of Spaniards visited the famous art gallery
Something like lack of time, the main reason for not going to the museum for 39.96% of the participants. follow him remoteness or poor communication , determining factor for 39.40%; and the ticket price for 38.92%.
There are those who directly recognize that they prefer to make other plans, 20.08%; and 15.02% who answered that they are not interested. Along the same lines, there are also those that ensure that they get bored in museums. There are, there are. Specifically, 7.75%. And let's not forget that 10.21% who confess not go more often because they have no one to go with.
And it is that in the specific case of the visitors of the Prado Museum, 70.74% recognized that their partner is the ideal company to visit them. Children (41.68%) and friends (27.55%) would come later.
We must then be a society of 'singles' because in the last year only 5.70% of Spaniards visited the famous art gallery . In fact, there 37.52% confess that they have never visited El Prado.
Among those who do choose to venture through the corridors of art, 64.86% prefer to do it freely, without the need to follow guided tours. Perhaps it is because they are clear about what they want to see. A proper name and a work: Diego Velazquez and Las Meninas.
This sociological study, carried out between February 26 and March 1 of this year, ensures that the Sevillian painter is the one most remembered by 65.16% of those surveyed. Also, for 40.25% is the one who best represents Spain and for 37.14% he is the best painter of all time.
Considering these data, it is not surprising that Las meninas is the favorite painting of 60.10% of Spaniards , to such an extent that the 31.34% confess that it would be the work they would choose to put in their living room and 27.15% say it would be the first painting they would go to see on a visit to the Prado Museum.
'Las meninas', the painting preferred by the Spanish