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Also, this is the raw number of museums, and the US has a large population.
The US has about four times as many people as Germany, and about 5 times as many museums. If you control for population, it doesn't seem so weird.
What's weird is that China has so few museums, and India doesn't even make the list.
this was my first thought. per capita would make more sense but then also like some people above where talking about museums and yeah there are like large city type museums and there are much smaller ones. My town has a historical society that basically runs a museum of the towns past but it would like fit in a large condo. Now the major city downtown has an art, natural history, science and industry, planetarium that are places people travel to see and our in buildings you can spend a whole day at and not see everything plus equaly interesting grounds. So there are museums and then there are museums.
I wondered about that myself a country as old and as large as China seems like it should have a huge number of them
China was old. Then the „cultural revolution“ made BRRRRR so now most of China isn‘t very old anymore.