雅思写作范文：访博物馆(2)
访博物馆
Nevertheless, the core issue is about the costs of exhibitions because usually museums areextremely expensive to run. Operating on a limited annual budget, any museum would be in acrisis sooner or later without an increasingly supportive government as the only source of funding.Thus, if museums offering free general admission to visitors were entirely funded out ofgovernment money, then the pressure on other government's demands of hospitals, schools,pensions, etc. would invariably make museums a poor second, resulting in under-funding andconsequently lack of excellence. This leads some people to think that museums ought to chargevisitors for admission since they are designed to entertain the public as are theaters, for thatmatter. To be realistic in the presence of the current economic recession, the government simplycould not afford to fund any activity of possible value, such as paying all the bills generated bymuseum management.
In any case, the museum purposes change from institution to institution, with some museumsfavoring education over entertainment, and vice versa. Were free museum entertainmentconsidered as a cultural right, should the government make theater tickets free as well? Or shouldmuseums in financial stress just start selling off their artifacts to make ends meet?
