Count of US museums revised, doubling old estimate

Published May 19, 2014 6:24pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — 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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