Many museums charge for admission while others are free. Do you think the advantages of charging people for admission to museums outweigh the disadvantages?

These

days many

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days, many

museums

have made

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make

are making

it a compulsion for the visitors to pay a fee for visiting the premises while others have kept it without any payments. Despite of its demerits of discouraging attitude and sense of an undue expense among the visitors, there are several benefits

such

as, increased revenue and filtering of the right audiences for these places. In my opinion,

advantages

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the advantages

are more considerable as compared to the disadvantages. On the one hand, one of the biggest drawbacks of charging an entrance money from people is that they might feel

demotivated

to visit museums and rather choose to visit some other more entertaining and more fun places which are either free or where they have to pay comparable charges.

Secondly

, in their

perspective it

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perspective, it

might be unfair on them to be expected to pay for

such

facilities as according to a vast majority of people, all

such

facilities are among the basic human rights and should be funded by the government. A recent study concluded that educational and informative facilities which are free are opted 60% more as compared to the ones for which people had to spend from their own pocket.

On the other hand

, there are various positive outcomes of ticketed system.

Firstly

, it allows the museums to generate a better revenue,

therefore

, decrease their dependency on government and donors for their day to day expenses

such

as payment of utility and maintenance bills and staff salaries.

Also

,

this

makes them able to provide better facilities to the visitors.

Secondly

, it helps

stopping

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stop

those people who use these places just as the spots for meeting their friends and spend some time with them. According to a study conducted by the students of a private sector university in Pakistan those museums which charge its customers are 50% more preferred than the ones which allow a free to the general public. In conclusion, a lot of museums require their visitors to buy entry tickets, whereas, there are others those provide

this

facility for free. The free entry has positive outcomes

such

as more money earned by these institutions for their better operations and

also

it leads to selection of better audiences visiting them.

In contrast

, the negative impacts

such

as discouraged customers and people with negative perception regarding

this

policy are minimal.