Beacuse of increasing available time for leisure, people began to visit a lot of museums. In accordance with this trend, some people argue that charging for entrance fee is right but others assert that they do not have to pay money. There are both benefits and drawbacks to this phenomenon, but I think
that the merits are greater.
To begin with, there are several disadvantages when visitors have to pay to enter the museums.
first and foremost reason why money should be collected from visitors is that it can be utilized
to maintain activities such as holding events, employees’s salaries, etc. In addition, amount of
money which are charged can be spent on reparing and restoring the musems. For example,
the museum’s management can raise its own fund with thousands dollars thanks to fee from
visitors so they are able to improve the quality of service.
However, not all aspects of this phenomenon have demerits. Firstly, the amount of money taken
from entrance fee could return to subsidize the museum. Setting up and maintaining museum’s
activities can cost thousands of dollars and require an inordinate amount of time and energy.
In fact, some museums are owned by local government while others are run by private companies.
In either way, entrance fee together with other funds from selling souvenirs, gifts or holding
activities can take some pressure off the owners’ budgets. Secondly, the charge can make visitors
value the museums more, therefore, bring people more valuable experiences during the course of
their visit.
In conclusion, although free entrance also has positive sides, I think stable resource of income will
bring better developments for museum.