[News] The Metropolitan Museum of Art Is Raising Its Admission Fee to $30 as Inflation Comes for Us


June 30, 2022


A security guard stands at his post as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reopens to the public on August 29, 2020. Photo by Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images.
 
Culture will cost you.

The Met Is Getting More Expensive – Inflation really is everywhere. Starting Friday, July 1, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will officially become the most expensive art institution in New York City. The museum is raising its ticket price by $5 across the board. Adults will now pay $30, up from $25; seniors will be $22, up from $17; and students will be $17, up from $12. It will retain its “pay as you wish” option for New York state residents as well as students who live in NY, NJ or Connecticut.

“The Museum is always seeking a balance between ensuring that we are providing as wide access as possible, and generating critical support for our programming,” a museum spokesperson told The Post. “We think… having a modest increase for out-of-state and international visitors, for the first time in 11 years, is fair and appropriate.”
 

The Metropolitan Museum of New York is raising its prices.
 
The last increase of this sort was in 2011, when the adult admission price increased from $20 to $25. 
the Met will be notably more expensive than the 9/11 Memorial Museum ($26), the Guggenheim Museum ($25), the Museum of Modern Art ($25), the Whitney Museum of American Art ($25).

Up until 2018, the Met’s pay-what-you-wish policy extended to visitors from around the globe, the last museum in the world to have such broad guidelines. In March of that year, the policy changed to apply only to state residents and students in the tri-state area. Despite not needing to pay the hefty new admission fee, some locals are still annoyed about it. Ericson Contreras, a 19-year-old student from Harlem visiting the museum earlier in the week, called the new pricing “absurd” and said he’s been disappointed about the limited diversity in the museum’s collection. 




 

 

 


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