Since 2013, about 2.7 Million visitors have been registered in the museum complex, which includes the Lamego Museum, Biscainhos Museum and D. Diogo de Sousa Museum (Braga), Paço dos Duques and Museum of Alberto Sampaio (Guimarães), Museum of the Land of Miranda (Miranda do Douro) and Museum of the Abbot of Baçal (Bragança).

If these results add up the entries of the main monuments managed by the DRCN, a value of around 5 Million visitors is verified, highlighting the prominent position occupied by the Palace of the Dukes of Bragança, in Guimarães, which in recent years five years recorded more than 1.5 Million entries.

Compared with last year, all the museums managed by the Regional Directorate of Culture of the North registered a rise in the number of visitors, totaling an overall increase of 15% over the same period.

In 2017, the museum that registered the greatest increase in the number of visitors, taking into account the year-on-year variation, was the Lamego Museum, which grew 61%. A very significant increase, justified, not only but also, by the influx of public to the initiatives promoted throughout the year to commemorate the Centenary of the Museum of Lamego.

The Biscainhos Museum in Braga also recorded a significant increase in visitors during 2017, up 32% over the same period of the previous year. In Bragança, the Abade de Baçal Museum grew 20% in the number of visitors, while in Guimarães, the Paço dos Duques and the Museum of Alberto Sampaio grew by 14% compared to 2016. The Museum of the Land of Miranda, with 7% increase, and the D. Diogo de Sousa Museum, with 2%, complete the growth curve in 2017.

Considering this development as "extremely positive", António Ponte, Regional Director of Culture of the North, explains that the growth observed in recent years is due to a reinforcement of articulated and networked work strategy throughout the territory, where it has been developing a decentralized investment policy, involving cultural agents and local authorities in the pursuit of a common effort to safeguard, preserve and disseminate Heritage in the North.

On the other hand, according to the Regional Director of Culture of the North, "several conservation and restoration projects of the built heritage have been developed, aiming to ensure the protection and valorization of buildings, always with the objective of returning them to the communities to which they belong, new models of public fruition ".

They are testimony to the various activities and projects, the Cathedrals Route to the North or the Patrimony to the North space (located in the Monastery of the Serra do Pilar in Gaia), whose objective is to increase the number of visitors through the recovery and safeguard of the patrimony , but also the opening of new channels of fundamental information and dissemination to attract new visitors.