In reply to:
>Date:    Tue, 5 Dec 1995 15:11:49 EST
>From:    "Adam Bickford, Smithsonian Institution" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: How many Museums are there?
>
> Hi.  Sorry to bother the list with this, but my own search has produced
> nothing.
>
> Does anyone know where I might find out how many museums there are in the
> United States?  Ideally, the answer will be in the form of a web site
> address where I can download a data set containing the number of
> different type of museums for over the last 15 or so years.
>

And the answer, Please!, is 8,179.

Source:  "Museums Count, a report by the American Association of Museums."
         1994, 104 pages. I paid US$25 for it at an AAM conference.

I think this is a MUST book for anyone interested in Museum trends, the
future, etc.  Has lots of other information.

Unfortunately, the AAM in not on the web yet.  :-(

Yours, David Bridge
Museum Support Center
Smithsonian Institution
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