The Metro raises ticket prices: now it is the most expensive museum in New York

Culture will cost you dearly. Starting July 1, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is raising prices by $5 across the board, making it the most expensive museum in the city. New York Post.

Adults will now pay $30 instead of $25. High school students will pay $22 and students $17. It will retain the pay-as-you-go option for New Yorkers. As well as students living in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut.

“The museum is always looking for a balance between providing the widest possible access and supporting our programs,” said a museum spokesperson. “We think a modest increase in fees for foreign visitors for the first time in 11 years is fair and appropriate.”

The last increase was in 2011. Then the cost of an entrance ticket for adults increased from $20 to $25. At $30, the Met will be noticeably more expensive than the 9/11 Memorial Museum ($26), Guggenheim Museum ($25), Museum of Modern Art ($25), Whitney Museum of American Art ($25), American Museum of Natural History ($22), Brooklyn museum ($16) and the Jewish Museum ($15).

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Up until 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Pay what you want" policy extended to visitors from all over the world. And it was the last museum in the world that adhered to such broad principles. In March of that year, the policy became limited to state residents and students in the tri-state area.

Erickson Contreras, a 19-year-old Harlem student who visited the museum this week, called the new prices absurd. He also said that he was disappointed with the limited variety of the museum's collection.

“Personally, I am Afro-Hispanic,” he said. - It drives me crazy".

Tourists visiting the museum have had mixed emotions about the increase in prices.

Luc Fouchet, a 29-year-old contract manager from South Africa, said he was happy to pay $30.

“I'm not a big fan of art. But for me to come and see so many works of art in one place is a real event,” he said. “Besides, I think I have to eat a hot dog on the steps because it’s cool.”

“What you see is worth that $30,” says Melissa Calasso, a 38-year-old housewife from Germany.

Grace Miller, a 23-year-old visitor from Wisconsin, was less than thrilled.

“The last time I was here, they just started charging,” Miller said, referring to the 2018 changes. "Now that they've raised the price again, I should stop coming to New York."