# Museums to end entry fees

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/05/23/museums-end-entry-fees/
- Published: 2001-05-23T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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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