Paris’s Louvre museum said on Thursday, November 27, it would raise ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, meaning US, British and Chinese tourists among others will have to pay $37 to get in.
The museum told Agence France-Presse (AFP) the 45% price hike aims to boost annual revenues by up to $23 million to fund structural improvements at the world’s most-visited art museum, which is reeling from the daylight theft of priceless treasures last month.
From 2026, visitors from outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will have to pay €32 – an extra €10 – from January 14, the museum and staff unions said after the measure was approved at a museum board meeting.
It’s run by the fucking French, what do you expect?
Everything that’s lacking in America and more. Starting with manners and self-reflection.
self-reflect a bit about the stolen artifacts being exposed in that museum, then.
Interesting question. If artifacts were built/crafted by slaves working in Egypt, should one return the artifacts to the Egyptians or the people who actually laboured to produce the artifact?
Either way it seems to me like Egypt has to be the entity that reckons with that question as it’s a part of their past.