Today the internet has taught me that the number of museums in the United States is more than the number of Starbucks and McDonald’s restaurants combined. There are about 35,000 active museums, double the estimated number from the 1990’s. There are about 11,000 Starbucks and 14,000 McDonald’s.

Most of the museums are smaller places, mom-and-pop style compared to the Home Depots of culture that are the Smithsonian or Guggenheim. It’s awesome that there are all these pockets of culture and knowledge out there waiting to be discovered.

Of course, to share this knowledge I picked a picture I took of a museum from a trip to Montréal and not one from the United States. Let’s … just ignore that. I mostly really like the architecture of the building. Also, the tower in the background leads to some sort of Ghost World.