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Art Inspiration of 19th Century

Art Inspiration of 19th Century

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    From 27 August
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    Cromwell New Street Road
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Art Inspiration of 19th Century

Art Inspiration of 19th Century

The challenge

In the 1980s, “the UK’s national museums faced political pressure from the Conservative government to charge for admission, to make them less dependent on government funding".

The initiative

In 1997, the new Labour government made a commitment to reinstate free entry for national museums in order to have a more diverse range of visitors. “Following a campaign led by the museums themselves,

The impact

The national museums which dropped charges all saw substantial increases to their visitor numbers, an average of 70 percent. In the first year after free admission was introduced visitor figures.