French museums hike prices for non-European touristsAFP, PARISShould foreign tourists pay more for state-funded galleries than locals, or should art be accessible to all, without discrimination? Photo: AFPAmericans, UK citizens and Chinese nationals, who are some of the museum’s most numerous foreign visitors, will be among those affected, as will tourists from developing countries. The French policy was “symptomatic of the return, as elsewhere in the world, of unabashed nationalism,” Poncet wrote in Le Monde newspaper last month. Some of the funds would go toward a colossal plan to renovate the Louvre, which French President Emmanuel Macron announced last year. Britain has long had a policy of offering universal free access to permanent collections at its national galleries and museums.
