Jose Sanchez
Research expert covering society, economy, & politics for Latin America
Online cultural events - statistics and facts
Over the last decade, the global art and culture sector has gradually begun to accept the onset of both digitization and digitalization. However, 2020 and 2021 will likely be remembered as the years that accelerated this process to go online. Due to emergency restrictions put in place during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, museums and galleries, movie theaters, music clubs, and all sorts of cultural venues across the globe had to shut down for months. Forced to stay closed to the public, many cultural institutions turned to the internet as a way to engage with their audience by offering more online activities and virtual events. According to a May 2021 study, more than a quarter of surveyed museums worldwide started to organize online live events during the health crisis, with an additional 28 percent increasing such activities during the closures.
