Emmanuel Macron’s got a point: Why shouldn’t we charge tourists to see our treasures? | Catherine Bennett

INtrduction, five years later, another reward from Britain’s exit from the European Union: an opportunity to support the renewal of the Louvre Museum. President Emmanuel Macron suggested He paid the price of “Renaissance” From the Paris Museum, partly, by increasing entry fees for visitors from outside the European Union.

After some initial attempts to represent this as a direct insult – “The British will have to push more than the European Union residents” (the mail-Even the supportive press in Brexit has accepted that the scheme applies in the world, to all visitors other than the European Union: an exceptionally cunning method for British targeting, even for the French.

If there is anything, of course, this opportunity for the British to pay more is a proud reminder of their victory in Britain’s exit from the European Union: Cultural profits there with a loss Erasmus scheme The prospects for musicians were destroyed in the United Kingdom. Fortunately for these indigenous, the current Prime Minister appears to be busy with his creation, which is likely to be ugly, inheritance: an environment in the unorganized UK UK.

As for Macron’s thinking: It was only expected last summer a British coordinator, Sir Mark Jones. He suggested that national groups in London be paid for improvements Submit admission fees For visitors abroad over the age of 25. After somehow the British Museum was missed thousands of thefts of its collections, Jones became a temporary director (museum’s chair, austerity lovers and a journey George Osborn, he remained in place). Later, step down, tell Jones Sunday Times Although although acceptance should remain free for taxpayers in the United Kingdom, imposing fees on tourists abroad can help in everything starting from the redevelopment of the museum and its repair to international partnerships, improving salaries and reducing overcrowding that does not Sometimes. He suggested that museums and other major exhibitions should think about doing the same thing.

How long ago, it appeared that many workers who are dealing closely, with pressure on group tourism in these invaluable spaces, are among London The lowest paid. Amazing security guards at the Museum of Natural History, the Science Museum and the V & A Jam Boycott of exhibitions throughout February. Their union, the voices of the United World (UVW), notice the report of the Science Museum on Increase visitors and profits. Separately, TRISTRAM Hunt celebrated from V & A “A successful financial return in secondary spendingThis – for him – avoids imposing entry fees. It cannot be not useful for the security staff to win the contractor Wilson James £ 13.15 per hour (London wage in London is 13.85 pounds).

In not imposing entry fees, national museums in the United Kingdom are, as any British tourist, anomalous. “It will be logical, for us to impose on visitors abroad to accept museums while we are shipping when we visit their museums,” Jones said. They are largely, even when local citizens and residents are exempted, these museums do this without accusations-sometimes directed at the supporters of tourist shipping in the United Kingdom-from the hatred of foreigners. When you see the oldest inhabitants of Venice, they are removed from Vaporetti or running by iron units, wheel cases, and personal images, its approach consisting of two levels can be provided by lower tourism by compensation. The Capital Museum in New York is similarly exemption Where the residents of the state decide their own fees.

The least generous capitals deprive tourists of free acceptance, do not rise to an issue against the most hidden entry principles in the United Kingdom, and sometimes they are announced with levels of national pride and piety. In addition to the arguments for the advanced global free entry in 2000, its supporters are convincingly, and now understanding, by welcoming the supposed global museums, visitors from the countries that the colonial British have brutally taken into account for future exhibitions. After Jones, Professor David Apulavia argued in Scenery Against entry fees: “These museums are holding their contents on behalf of all humanity. This means that people from all countries of the world must be able to enter freely and know what these museums contain.”

However, the same argument (assuming that you ignore how tourists abroad who have already covered the cost of accessing there) applies to countless museums, exhibitions and churches that extract the payment, usually from everyone, because they are the same in decorations, but The disputed historical origins. With wonderful houses stuffed with colonial prizes and evidence for local exploitation, the National Fund, for example, persuaded the audience to be fun in the slavery sites of wires, in the old laundries and frozen bonuses.

Like the Louvre Museum, British Museum It is a ray, also leaks, under pressure to upgrade, increasingly, to cooperate. Where do the resources come from? This is if there is no future for my own suggestion: a statement of 50 pounds (at the present time) for the mobile phone/watches inside the base. Millions of different millions of United will not disturb one by condemnation: there is no global treasure that cannot be improved – including his visiting colleagues – by planting their face in front of him.

Therefore, if not Macron, with insufficient government investment, what? At the same time, supporters of recovery and fair wage were required to take action from comprehensive groups, and other activists have stabbed to resort to companies financing, with campaigns against fossil fuel funds, such as BP deal With the British Museum. The Science Museum is being attacked for Treat Adani Green EnergyPart of a conglomerate investing in coal.

No, this excludes contributions from less popular shepherds. From May, it will be called the entire permanent collection of the national exhibition “CC Land: The Wonder of Art”, which is a farce that makes the SacKler (recently preserved) look modest. Even Napoleon, when the Louvre Museum was renamed, neglected to add an inspiring phrase that would launch all future contacts. As in: “CC Land: The Wonder of Art” gives you an opportunity to discover the works that you may never see.

Thank you, CC Land: The Wonder of Art! Without you, I may have never been sincere that if it is not a fee for tourists to enter perfect, then the current alternatives seem much worse.