From 27 August
Thursday – Sunday: 11.00-19.00
Some exhibitions and events carry
a separate charge
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Cromwell New Street Road
London, SW7 2RL
15 August – 31 October 2020
15 August – 31 October 2020
15 August – 31 October 2020
In the 1980s, “the UK’s national museums faced political pressure from the Conservative government to charge for admission, to make them less dependent on government funding".
In 1997, the new Labour government made a commitment to reinstate free entry for national museums in order to have a more diverse range of visitors. “Following a campaign led by the museums themselves,
The national museums which dropped charges all saw substantial increases to their visitor numbers, an average of 70 percent. In the first year after free admission was introduced visitor figures.
