Paris’s Louvre museum said on Thursday, November 27, it would raise ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, meaning US, British and Chinese tourists among others will have to pay $37 to get in.
The museum told Agence France-Presse (AFP) the 45% price hike aims to boost annual revenues by up to $23 million to fund structural improvements at the world’s most-visited art museum, which is reeling from the daylight theft of priceless treasures last month.
From 2026, visitors from outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will have to pay €32 – an extra €10 – from January 14, the museum and staff unions said after the measure was approved at a museum board meeting.
I’ve been to Russia (st. Petersburg) where entering a church would cost $10, but for Russians a couple of rubles.
It makes sense from the perspective that locals should be able to afford seeing their own art and architecture. If foreigners can afford it and are willing to pay the asked amount, I sort of understand.
That’s generally how you want to set up your tourist attractions. They provide entertainment and draw for residents and you pass upkeep costs onto the visitors.
I usually agree with this point but it does create an awkward spot for museums with a lot of international exhibits. Like, you did a colonialism, stole my peoples stuff, brought it back here, and are now charging me extra to see it? Idk how you get around that, except maybe returning the stuff I guess.
Yea returning the stuff and allowing the origin countries profit off it would be nice. We lose a lot of history to war torn countries tho. Preservation has a cost and its own logistics. If you knew the item would be pawned off or destroyed; morally I’d like the history with someone who has the resources to preserve it and share it with as many as possible. International travelers can probably afford the hit. Presuming the effected people you describe can afford to travel.
How will they decide which ticket you get? Do you need a passport to enter the Louvre?
They‘ve been checking IDs since around 2001. Something major must have happened that year…
I wonder how many artifacts are stolen from France old colonies
I doubt there are that many in the Louvre. Probably more in other museums.
Any evidence?
I found this page with many example of stolen artifacts in French museums a lot of them in Louvre just by Napoleonic armies alone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_art_looted_by_Napoleonic_armies
Just a hunch to be honest. But the list you provided does not show artifacts from the french colonies.
the french stole quite a bit from their colonies but they’re not even close to the british, which looted from a sizable part of the entire world
32 whole euros a 45% increase?!. OMG!
In seattle it’s 25usd to enter a third class shitty aquarium, and it doesn’t even have historical artifacts, and barely any fish
Hmm…that’s what Trump is doing in america as well. Prices higher for foreigners. Maybe the
moneyworld isn’t so different after all.Americans pay the tariff, dummy
I think they mean higher prices at national parks for foreigners. Just announced. Japan is doing the same thing.
Ah yes, lets gut the NPS, discourage foreigners to visit the US, then charge the few that do come more. Brilliant.
Alright, I didn’t know. Still can’t follow the conclusion “guess it can’t be that bad”
They never said that though.
Literally racist.
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