Do Museums Really Need To Charge Admission?

When the UK’s public museums scrapped their admission fees a couple of years back, attendance swelled and the museums thrived. But in the U.S., admission fees continue to rise, and precious few museums are free to all comers. Tyler Green suggests not only that museums gain more than they lose when they go free of charge, but that the money they’re currently making from admission fees is negligible when compared with their overall income and expenditures.