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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Kumail Jaffer

London will fall behind European rivals if tourists are charged to visit museums, ministers warned

Charging international tourists an entry fee for London’s museums risks the seeing the capital fall behind rivals in Europe and the US, ministers have been told.

In March the government confirmed they would look at the possibility of charging international visitors at national museums across the country amid a cultural funding crisis. Universal free admission to the national museums has been in place since 2001 for both domestic and foreign visitors.

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