Einer der Gründe dafür, dass japanische Nationalmuseen eine „doppelte Preisgestaltung“ für ausländische Touristen einführen, ist der Druck der Regierung, die sie in zehn Jahren finanziell unabhängig machen will. Wenn sie ihre Einnahmen nicht steigern, drohen ihnen „Umstrukturierungen“ oder sogar die Schließung
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASV352V2QV35UCVL010M.html
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Japan’s hitting the hyper neoliberalism phase where everything must be a profit making endeavor including cultural and historical sites. Depressing.
It’s the future considering the govnt doesn’t have money to even pay they own employees a decent wage so they have to squeeze money out of something.
Museums should be funded by the government imo. Anything people pay to the museum should be a donation to the museum which can be further used for salaries, upkeep etc
The irony is that they want to boost revenue by charging more, but if the prices get high enough, it’ll just discourage people from going at all. Closing or reorganizing national museums because they aren’t profitable is a massive failure of public policy. Culture shouldn’t have to justify its existence with a balance sheet though
I’ll probably be passing in more museums then. If this is how ya wanna take my dosh, I’m not gonna make it easy for ya.
Maybe they should just… fund their cultural institutions they are so proud of?
The right wing has never really understood, or supported, contemporary culture.
As someone who went through the process of getting my curatorial license in Japan (学芸員資格) and learned so much that brought me to admire the public funded systems museums have had, this is fuckin batshit.
I’m so glad I never pursued a career in museums since I was turned down from 2 things, and the pay was way too low but holy. Japan is Americanizing itself so fast on this front and it’s despicable, disgusting, shameful. If everything is going to go private it’s ultimately going to become an entertainment sphere like other private museums have already shifted towards before covid. Like I’m kind of biased on this just cultural significance can be entertaining but it isn’t its purpose like laymen tend to assume. Ugh idk
This… Would ruin one of the things I adore about Japan. The sheer number of museums and culturally significant places that are so well maintained and accessible.
As a tourist I don’t mind paying more but these places should not be focused on being profitable. That will destroy so much culture and history. The damage won’t be felt immediately but it will be devastating in a few decades.
Raise pricing for everyone, but have a locals day every week/month that’s free? That’s what a lot of my local museums and gardens do.