It may not be possible to adequately measure a cultural experience: nevertheless, the numbers are interesting. The figures below have been supplied by the various CNCI member institutions.

Visitor totals for 2006:the Chester Beatty Library 206,000; Imma 435,000; the National Concert Hall 320,390; the National Museum of Ireland (includes Kildare Street, Natural History Museum, Collins Barracks and Country Life in Co Mayo) 864,000.

Imma had 12,929 hits on its website last month.

The NCH set box-office record sales of €6.3 million in 2006, with a 27 per cent increase in internet sales.

The National Library of Ireland has more than a million books and, during 2006, collected more than 18,900 individual issues of newspapers.

In 2007 the Natural History Museum celebrates its 150th anniversary.