“United States” has the highest value (33.1K) and “Poland” the lowest (1,233).

World's leading countries by number of museums as of March 2021
Number of museums	Value
Poland	1,233
Mexico	1,320
Thailand	1,526
Sweden	1,600
Spain	1,732
Canada	2,245
UK and Northern Ireland	3,183
Italy	3,195
Brazil	3,906
France	4,811
Russian Federation	5,415
China	5,535
Japan	5,738
Germany	6,741
United States	33,082

Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian

About this data

The data on this page is global, collected by Namafar for comparison with Iran.

Iranian (Solar Hijri) years run from late March to March: 1404 = March 2025 to March 2026.

Details

Source: UNESCO; Various sources
Year: 1402 (2023/24)
Industry: Tourism
Published: Jan 7, 2024

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