From 2026, visitors from outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will have to pay €32 – an extra €10 – from January 14.

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.

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    342·
    16 days ago

    I’ve been to Russia (st. Petersburg) where entering a church would cost $10, but for Russians a couple of rubles.

    It makes sense from the perspective that locals should be able to afford seeing their own art and architecture. If foreigners can afford it and are willing to pay the asked amount, I sort of understand.

    • TronBronson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      That’s generally how you want to set up your tourist attractions. They provide entertainment and draw for residents and you pass upkeep costs onto the visitors.

      • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        131·
        15 days ago

        I usually agree with this point but it does create an awkward spot for museums with a lot of international exhibits. Like, you did a colonialism, stole my peoples stuff, brought it back here, and are now charging me extra to see it? Idk how you get around that, except maybe returning the stuff I guess.

        • TronBronson@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          15 days ago

          Yea returning the stuff and allowing the origin countries profit off it would be nice. We lose a lot of history to war torn countries tho. Preservation has a cost and its own logistics. If you knew the item would be pawned off or destroyed; morally I’d like the history with someone who has the resources to preserve it and share it with as many as possible. International travelers can probably afford the hit. Presuming the effected people you describe can afford to travel.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      15 days ago

      People give the British Museum a lot of shit, but it’s free all year round for everyone.

      • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
        22·
        15 days ago

        Well I mean they didn’t pay for most of the stuff in there in the first place

        • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          14 days ago

          They spend over £50,000,000/year on care, research, and conservation.

          A significant portion of what we know about the ancient world is a direct result of their research sharing and activities; for example when the Rosetta Stone was in French hands they kept it to themselves, when it was in Egypt they did nothing with it, but when it came to Britain it was shared with research departments across Europe as well as in Britain, resulting in our ability today to read hieroglyphics and demotic script.

          Think about that for a second: if the Rosetta Stone had been left in Egypt, there’s every possibility that Egyptians today would still have no idea about most of their own history or how to read their own ancient texts. You might dismiss this as paternalistic or white-savioury, but it’s true nonetheless.

          Even as recently as last year we had researchers finding things like https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/babylonian-map-world-0021631 that simply wouldn’t have happened without the British Museum’s work. So, I’m inclined to cut them some slack.

  • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    16 days ago

    How will they decide which ticket you get? Do you need a passport to enter the Louvre?

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      It’s pretty normal to need different ID cards to use some services in the EU.

      You need student ID for student tickets, on the train if there is a senior or a youth discount they check for ID.

      If you are an EU citizen, your ID is valid everywhere in the EU, no passport needed.

  • Feyr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    13 days ago

    32 whole euros a 45% increase?!. OMG!

    In seattle it’s 25usd to enter a third class shitty aquarium, and it doesn’t even have historical artifacts, and barely any fish

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    28·
    15 days ago

    Hmm…that’s what Trump is doing in america as well. Prices higher for foreigners. Maybe the money world isn’t so different after all.

    • mitram@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      152·
      16 days ago

      Under the rules of the EU most benefits an European country provides to their citizens must be provided to residents of other European nationalities.

      With that in mind I guess the purpose is to keep the price of access to culture lower for locals and still follow the rules from the EU

      • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        16 days ago

        yep and the people arguing against this blatantly correct take are just pretending we are upset about americans paying more while completely ignoring the actual argument.

      • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9·
        16 days ago

        The people complaining are not mad about Americans but mad about up charging say egytptians to view their artifacts looted by napoleon and that’s just one example why attack a position nobody is taking.

      • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
        76·
        16 days ago

        There’s an entire planet of races you forgot about. Besides, I saw the crown jewels a week before they were nicked so I don’t need to go back anytime soon.