Museums and galleries admission charges
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Your support makes all the difference.Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
No charge.
"Charging would be suicide," says Director of Glasgow Museums.
Funded by Glasgow City Council.
National Gallery of Scotland,
Edinburgh
No charge except temporary
exhibitions - up to pounds 4.
"It is not up for discussion."
Funded by Scottish Office.
Royal Museum of Scotland,
Edinburgh
No charge.
"We have a policy of free admission."
Funded by Scottish Office.
Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Free to get in ground floor but
temporary exhibitions on 2nd floor. pounds 2.50 or pounds 1 concs, pounds 5 family ticket.
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
No charge.
"There is no debate about it."
City Museum and Art Gallery,
Bristol
Adults pounds 2, concs pounds 1.
Passport ticket pounds 3 for 4 sites - City, Industrial Museum, Georgian House and Red Lodge.
Funded by Bristol City Council.
Bristol Industrial Museum
Admission pounds 1.50.
Free for under-16s and students.
Science Museum, London
Adults pounds 5.50, children & concs pounds 2.90. Free after 4.30 and for pre-booked educational groups, under-5s and disabled. Started charging in 1988.
Funded by Dept National Heritage.
National Maritime Museum
Adults pounds 5.50, children pounds 3,
concs pounds 4.50. Valid for a second visit within a year. First of the national
museums to charge in 1984.
Imperial War Museum
Adults pounds 4.50, children pounds 2.25,
concs pounds 3.50. Free for under-5s, free after 4.30. Started charging in 1989.
Funded by Dept National Heritage.
Natural History Museum
Adults pounds 5.50, children pounds 2.80, concs pounds 3.
Free 4.30-5.50 week, 5.00-5.50 w/e.
Funded by Dept National Heritage.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Adults pounds 5. Free for under 18s,
students, unemployed, disabled.
Free period 4.30 to 5.50.
"Financial necessity that we charge."
Funded by Dept Nat Heritage.
British Museum
No charge.
Receives the most government
funding - pounds 33.4m in 1995-96.
Tate Gallery, London
No charge.
May introduce charges when
Museum of Modern Art opens on Bankside in year 2000.
National Gallery
No charge except visiting exhibitions.
pounds 18.3m from Dept of National Heritage last year.
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