Paris’s Louvre museum said on Thursday, November 27, it would raise ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, meaning US, British and Chinese tourists among others will have to pay $37 to get in.
The museum told Agence France-Presse (AFP) the 45% price hike aims to boost annual revenues by up to $23 million to fund structural improvements at the world’s most-visited art museum, which is reeling from the daylight theft of priceless treasures last month.
From 2026, visitors from outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will have to pay €32 – an extra €10 – from January 14, the museum and staff unions said after the measure was approved at a museum board meeting.
Literally racist.
Literally opposite of racist. Same races are EU citizens and not EU-citizens. This is literally about residence, not race.
I mean, unless you consider US citizens to be separate race.
You are also wrong, “races” do not exist. Racism is the belief that “race” is a thing, and deducing opinions from that. Do not use racist terminology, please.
Sorry, “ethnic groups”.
Haplogroups
Much better :)
Under the rules of the EU most benefits an European country provides to their citizens must be provided to residents of other European nationalities.
With that in mind I guess the purpose is to keep the price of access to culture lower for locals and still follow the rules from the EU
American is not a race.
A race … to the bottom.
Ba dum tssss!
The people complaining are not mad about Americans but mad about up charging say egytptians to view their artifacts looted by napoleon and that’s just one example why attack a position nobody is taking.
There’s an entire planet of races you forgot about. Besides, I saw the crown jewels a week before they were nicked so I don’t need to go back anytime soon.
which is peachy because i bet many of the artifacts in such a museum are stolen from the very people now paying more to see them.
yep and the people arguing against this blatantly correct take are just pretending we are upset about americans paying more while completely ignoring the actual argument.
It’s run by the fucking French, what do you expect?
Everything that’s lacking in America and more. Starting with manners and self-reflection.
self-reflect a bit about the stolen artifacts being exposed in that museum you guys want to make more expensive for these people to see, then.