Free Museums – So Successful, We’re Broke

Millions of new visitors have been streaming into the UK’s museums since admission fees were abolished two years ago. So the free admission policy has been a big success, right? Maybe not. Museums are broke. They don’t get enough money to pay for operations. “Times are indeed so hard for our national museums – who have never had so many visitors – that they are being forced to go cap in hand to pay for bog-standard two-ply tissue.” Yes, that’s toilet paper…