In the past we may have turned to pollsters or psychics, while today we turn to Twitter to look at the hive mind and discover why…
Why Don’t More Americans Go to Museums?
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Americans are ignorant of everything, including art. Why would they go somewhere that would bring this fact to a point?
Fun facts: http://www.aam-us.org/about-museums/museum-facts
“There are approximately 850 million visits each year to American museums, more than the attendance for all major league sporting events and theme parks combined (483 million in 2011).”
But there’s been a drop: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/arts/a-new-survey-finds-a-drop-in-arts-attendance.html?_r=0