Roberta Smith writing for The New York Times in September 2017 voiced growing public concern that proposed increases in admissions prices would have an adverse effect upon attendance statistics on the museum. In January 2018, museum president Daniel Weiss introduced that the century-old coverage of free museum admission would be replaced. Effective March 2018, most guests who don’t stay in New York state or aren’t a student from New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut need to pay $25 (~$30.00 in 2023) to enter the museum. The City of New York has lowered funding on the Metropolitan as a part of…
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