December 09, 2004

Met Museum to hike price, others may follow

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will hike its "suggested" entrance fee to $15 from the current $12 in January, and the mayor has suggested other city cultural institutions suck it up and do the same, Crain's NY reports. Mayor Mike Bloomberg said he will cut the city's arts budget by 3 percent, (or $3.7 million,) for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30 and by 6 percent for the next budget year. The city funds 34 cultural institutions, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York City Opera. From Crain's:

Among the mayor's suggestions for making up the lost funding, according to people at the meeting, was for institutions to raise their prices like the Museum of Modern Art did recently when it set its entry fee at $20.

December 9, 2004 06:50 AM in Museums, Upper East Side

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