The discriminatory museum

1. The Louvre Museum
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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We will not make this a long‑standing cause, as we already have enough of them, no doubt more important. But the announcement of a 45% increase in the Musée du Louvre’s admission fee (from €22 to €32) for non‑European visitors is a deplorable measure for many reasons.
Admittedly, foreign visitors have not contributed through their taxes to the running of this museum. But the argument is flawed: will we ask French visitors who do not pay income tax to pay more than those who do? Above all, the citizens of our country do not contribute to the budgets of British, Swiss or American museums. And yet they pay the same admission price as the residents of those countries. Indeed, they even…