New York's two great museums face each other across Central Park, and they price visitors the same way. Pay a lot if you're from out of state. Pay what you like if you live in New York.
For most of its history, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York let everyone pay what they wished. The "recommended" $25 was a suggestion, and a…
Most visitors to Munich spend their money in beer halls and their time on Marienplatz. A few hundred metres away, the Residenz, the old palace of the…
At the southern tip of Lyon's Presqu'île, where the Rhône and the Saône meet, there's a museum that looks like a cloud of glass and steel crashed…
For six months this year it looked like Britain's free national museums might start charging tourists. In March the Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy…
The Prado had its best year ever in 2025. The museum in Madrid counted 3,513,402 visitors, the first time it has gone past 3.5 million, and over 3.6…
Tate Britain is the quieter Tate. Tate Modern, across the river in the old power station, took about 4.5 million visits in 2025. Tate Britain on…
If Paris is on your list for the next few years, cross one thing off. The Centre Pompidou is shut. Its modern art collection closed to the public on…
La Cité du Vin opened on the Garonne in June 2016 and turns ten this year. The building by XTU, the practice of Anouk Legendre and Nicolas…
Every city that wants a museum to fix its economy ends up pointing at Bilbao. Nearly thirty years after Frank Gehry's titanium building opened in…
On August 10 1628 the warship Vasa left Stockholm on her maiden voyage, heeled over in a gust and sank about 1,300 metres from where she started. She…
