The beginning of the year – a time for change but, not all of them will appeal to new Yorkers and the tourists. One of the most popular cultural institutions in the Big Apple, the Metropolitan Museum of art, partially abandoned its standard policy you pay the entrance tickets upon which visitors pay as much as you want.
Despite the fact that this system made the Metropolitan Museum a must place to visit for all who would like to immerse themselves in the cultural life of the Big Apple, not to spend in this expensive tickets, from March 1 for a chance to meet an adult art Museum visitors who are not new Yorkers will have to pay $25. The New York Times reports that new Yorkers will need to produce documents that specify the address of their registration.
The head of the Museum Daniel Weiss said Thursday that the installation of the fixed cost of the entrance ticket will help to raise the funds necessary for the maintenance of the cultural center. Currently, it spent 305 million dollars annually. The Metropolitan Museum receives about $ 26 million from the city authorities, with $ 15 million going to the cost of heat and light.
The entrance will be free for all children under the age of 12, and for students new York, new Jersey and Connecticut he will continue to be paid on request.
In addition, the Museum notes that the Fee of $25 will allow visitors to visit the Museum and Cloisters Breuer Met for three days in a row instead of one, so in General the ticket price is not so high.
The installation of a fixed fee marks a change of official policy of the Museum for the first time in 50 years. This decision was made due to the fact that the number of people voluntarily paying the proposed amount of donations declined sharply from 63 to 17 percent of the time, as the attendance rate increased from 4.7 to 7 million people in 13 years.
