In London, visitors can pay for the museum

London Mayor Boris Johnson said the implementation of a voluntary admission to remain in London, museums and exhibition halls. In this example, the British agencies have put the United States Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in New York, where the registration fee set at $ 20, and tourists can choose not to pay, but most people still get paid.

Mayor of London, the proposed measures, through voluntary contributions to the museum of financial difficulty, says the telegram. The other two years, authorities have pledged to the museum about 70000000 pounds (1.146 million U.S. dollars). However, this year in July a year, the Minister of Culture of the United States, United Kingdom, Barbara Follett, said the state funds can not start due to economic decline.

Meanwhile, the head of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Mark Jones, quoting the Times Online, said the museum has installed donated three pounds, but he does not like people can not choose to raise interest rates in the museum, due to the fact that it will not be ashamed to pay.

In London in 2001, the museum at the entrance to be free, attendance, and then increased by 70%. UK a world leader in the number of free museums.