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Tuesday, 20 May 2014 12:01

US Government Revises Count of Nation’s Museums, Doubling Previous Estimate

The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

The U.S. government is revising its count of the nation's museums, saying there is double the number of museums compared with a 1990s estimate.

The agency responsible for providing federal funding to museums issued a count Monday of 35,144 museums nationwide. That's compared to an estimate of 17,500 museums in the 1990s.

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