The main issue I have, more than the price, because it's expensive to run those kind of things like you wouldn't believe, is the fact that it's SO crowded.
Unless they're doing crowd control it's just impossible to see the artwork sometimes and even so, the only way that works well is to limit the number of tickets sold in a day.
Hence the necessity of making plans.

They do really nice stuff nowadays. Recently I've seen Pokémon X Kogei https://kogei.pokemon.co.jp/en/ which was really great, great crowd control too.
I want to see the Hello Kitty 50th anniversary exhibition but people line up like 2 hours before the museum opens so I noped out of there real quick.

Ah yeah I’d hate big crowds too. 8u

The last museum I went to only charged like $8-$12 entry, which compared to a lot of attractions hubster and I like, that wasn't bad! But when you're strapped for cash, that's like a whole meal or two, and calories matter when you're struggling.

Humm yeah it’s too expensive here lol. You should’ve seen my shock when I visited Washington and I got into the museums in there for free lol.

There are a lot of cheap/ free museums in Massachusetts and I miss it now that I don't live there anymore. Also if anyone is traveling to Greece for some reason, most of the museums there are super cheap and tickets often cover multiple museums or historical sites.

That sounds nice. Nothing is cheap or free here lol. Altho I haven’t really checked.

lunar_eclipse66 wrote: ↑Dec 2nd, '24, 18:01 There are a lot of cheap/ free museums in Massachusetts and I miss it now that I don't live there anymore. Also if anyone is traveling to Greece for some reason, most of the museums there are super cheap and tickets often cover multiple museums or historical sites.

I can mostly talk about France but it probably works in Europe in general, going to museums is seen as a right. And most are government funded. I worked in one, which was honestly impressive for something funded by a 10 000 people city, the entry price was less than 6 dollars. It was free for people under 18, even the Louvre is free for people under 18. We also had quite a lot of price reductions we were allowed to tell people about, most people were paying even less.
Obviously we were bleeding money so they did everything to save, sadly mostly on staff, which is why I left, but they did not touch the entry price.

London big museums are free too.

Moral of the story : if you want to support a museum, buy the goods. The entry price is nothing.

I’d like to go to free museums in other parts of the world. Lol

I used to be able to just take one of the Elders any time I wanted to go, and they'd let me in free as the attendant, and the Elder would get a discount (depending on the gallery/museum, sometimes it was a Golden Age discount, and sometimes it was Handicap Access discount). So it was pretty affordable! These days, that's not an option. I'll have to actually budget for it.

Lol going to museums isn’t as important as getting groceries tho. Lol