Museums to end entry fees

Howard Lake | 23 May 2001 | News

Museums are to scrap entry fees, following the Natural History Museum’s move to end its £9 adult entry fee.

Museums to offer universal free admission once again, following the decision by the trustees of the Natural History Museum to scrap the £9 adult entry fee. The National Maritime Museum then announced a few hours later that it will also no longer charge an entry fee from December 2001.

The move to scrap entry fees follows the announcement in the government’s Budget that museums will be able to reclaim VAT. Until now only museums that charged could reclaim VAT.

Read Museums to scrap entry charges by Maev Kennedy, Arts and heritage correspondent, at The Guardian.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.