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General Art Discussion / The Metropolitan gets greedy
« on: January 28, 2013, 03:54:02 PM »
I was in NYC a few weeks ago, and decided to make one of my regular visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I went online to look up some details (current exhibitions, etc.) and discovered that they raised the (suggested) admission fee to $25. That seemed high to me--as in I've never paid that much at any museum. It's one of the world's great museums, maybe they're in financial straits--so I did some research.
Ahhh, no. The Met is on city land (Central Park) and gets millions of dollars from NYC--and they can't legally have a compulsory admission fee. Looking further--they have an endowment of between 2-3 *billion* dollars. So why raise the "suggested" admission fee to $25? That really made me mad--they have a ton of money, but they want more--mostly from people that don't understand the admission price is suggested. For the first time, I paid less than the suggested fee--and happily handed over $5 for my ticket. Maybe they should raise the suggested admission to $100?
Ahhh, no. The Met is on city land (Central Park) and gets millions of dollars from NYC--and they can't legally have a compulsory admission fee. Looking further--they have an endowment of between 2-3 *billion* dollars. So why raise the "suggested" admission fee to $25? That really made me mad--they have a ton of money, but they want more--mostly from people that don't understand the admission price is suggested. For the first time, I paid less than the suggested fee--and happily handed over $5 for my ticket. Maybe they should raise the suggested admission to $100?
