ProvEnhance - Survey : Collections Provenance & Provenance Research on art collections in Belgian Museums doi:10.34934/DVN/7UQCD0 Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA 2026-09-18 1 Alexandre, Aude, 2026, "ProvEnhance - Survey : Collections Provenance & Provenance Research on art collections in Belgian Museums", https://doi.org/10.34934/DVN/7UQCD0, Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA, V1 ProvEnhance - Survey : Collections Provenance & Provenance Research on art collections in Belgian Museums Enquête sur la provenance des collections artistiques et la recherche de provenance au sein des musées belges - Enquête over de herkomst van kunstcollecties en herkomstonderzoek in Belgische musea (project ProvEnhance) doi:10.34934/DVN/7UQCD0 Alexandre, Aude Leroux, Alexandre ProvEnhance project 2025-12-17 Brussels, Belgium Microsoft Forms Microsoft Excel B2/233/P2/ProvEnhance Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA Alexandre, Aude Leroux, Alexandre Data Management Alexandre, Aude 2026-06-29 2026-09-18 provenhance: Serie of data produced by the ProvEnhance Project (B2/233/P2/ProvEnhance) funded by Belspo Arts and Humanities art museums (institutions) provenance art collections provenance As part of the research project “ProvEnhance. Enhancing the provenance data of the collections of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB) since 1933 – Scientific study, digital valorization and narrative in context”, a survey was conducted in the winter 2024-2025 among fine arts museums in Belgium to map out the current practices and resources used in provenance research on art collections within Belgian museums and related institutions, and to identify key needs and opportunities for collaboration and synergy. The survey was distributed to 133 museums identified as holding substantial fine-art and/or decorative-art collections. It was circulated directly through a bilingual mailing and more broadly through professional newsletters. The form was written in English, while respondents could answer in French or Dutch. In total, 43 responses were received. The survey included 40 questions divided into eight sections: museum profile, collection description, collection registration, available archives and documentation, provenance issues, provenance-research practices, needs and expectations, and closing information. This dataset contains the files related to this survey. Access to the file containing the survey responses is restricted to protect sensitive data, but the questionnaire, the list of respondents and the aggregated data are freely available. 2025-12-16 2026-03-31 survey data Belgium Organization/Institution Belgian museums or other public insitutions holding fine-arts or decorative arts collections Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium - Project ProvEnhance Potential respondents were identified by conducting a review of publicly available lists of Belgium Museums (Museum Pass, Erfgoedkaart) as well as by contacting regional / community associations of museums in Belgiums. The survey was also circulated more broadly through professional newsletters. The data included in the dataset were produced in the context of the museum survey. To assemble a list of museums to be contacted, different external data sources were used, as well public ones (Museum pass, Erfgoedkaart) as restricted ones (members of museum Belgian or international associations - MSW, ICOM, Meemoo; internal museum loan partners list). To consolidate and analyse the demographic data in the responses, some external referentials have also been used, mainly from the Open Data Wallonie-Bruxelles portal (https://www.odwb.be) but also from https://www.vlaanderen.be/. The questionnaire was circulated directly through a bilingual mailing to the identified potential respondents and more broadly through professional newsletters. The copyright content in this project is available for re-use under the terms of a [Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Licence. Creative Commons licences, including the CC BY 4.0 licence do not provide permission for any users to process any personal data that may be included in this project content. Under the General Data Protection Regulation and any data protection legislation in place in the country in which you are based, you will have a number of legal obligations and responsibilities relating to the use of any personal data in this content. This means that before you re-use any personal information in this content, you should ensure you have fulfilled any obligations to provide privacy information to the individuals whose personal data may be included in this content. This is likely to include, requesting consent and/or establishing another lawful basis for processing or identifying any exemptions you are relying on for re-use of the personal data. You may also have to comply with data subject rights requests. Given the sensitive nature of certain data, the survey was conducted under strict confidentiality. The dataset containing the survey responses is therefore not accessible outside the ProvEnhance project. Aude ALEXANDRE, Fenya ALMSTADT, Eléa DE WINTER, Ingrid GODDEERIS, Alexandre LEROUX, Kim OOSTERLINCK, Anne-Sophie RADERMECKER, Provenance Research in Belgian Museums. What a national survey reveals about collections, documentation and capacity, ENCATC Magazine, 12, March 2026. Belgian_Museums_and_respondents.xlsx List of Belgian museums of Fine Arts and/or Decorative Arts that were invited to take part in the survey, as well as those that responded. application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet Provenhance_museum_survey_codebook.md Document matadata and variable descriptions for each data file text/markdown README.md text/markdown Survey_Data.xlsx Full survey data application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet Survey_Questionnaire.pdf Survey questionnaire as published - introduction and 40 questions divided into 8 sections. application/pdf Survey_Results_Presentation.pdf A brief presentation of the survey results during a study day on 17/12/2025. application/pdf