On Wednesday voted in parliament through the next year’s budget. According to the free entrance in state museums will be removed for adults over 19 years. The change is probably already in just over two weeks, on 1 January.
uncertainty, citing several state museums such as the DN been in contact with. The national museum and the museum of Natural history tells us that they are awaiting the result of how the new budget affects their instruction.
” We can’t say much at the moment. That we would introduce changes already on the first of January, we see as unlikely, since we first have to wait for a new instruction to the authority from the Ministry of culture. But a lot can happen in politics before, ” says Martin Testorf, press officer at the Swedish museum of Natural history.
the superintendent of the museum of Modern art, makes a written declaration to the DN. He writes that the museum was a year to the preparation before the free entry reform was introduced:
”It was necessary to create a program that relates to the economic conditions. A large exhibition, with, for example, Marina Abramović, will take a few years to work out,” says Daniel Birnbaum, in the statement, and continues:
”the Belief that one of the two weeks would be able to adapt the museum’s programs to new conditions is not only ignorant but an insult to all serious cultural leadership.”
introduced in 2016, takes place as a result of the Conservatives and the christian democrat budgetmotion voted by the parliament.
According to the motion shall kulturbudgetens frames to decrease by a total of eur 213 million, of which sek 80 million relates to the abolished funding of free entry for adults.
the Details of the expenditure in the field of culture can certainly be changed during the coming week. First, the constitutional law committee gather to prepare a final proposal, and the house will later vote on the proposal on Tuesday next week.
in the culture. His party, the Liberals, is to maintain the free entrance. Nylander tells us that the committee meets on Friday. According to him, it is in principle clear that the changes will be carried out, because the other parties abstaining vote then the overall framework voted through.
” Yes, but then it will probably be a supplementary budget to be tabled during the spring, which can mean changes. A motion are written in the parliament is never as elaborate as a bill that the department put forward, ” says Christer Nylander.
He believes that the government’s directive to the authorities would probably need to be sent out during the christmas and new year and describes it as a ”very tight process”.
a Total subject of 18 state museums free admission reform. The changes in the financial framework does not mean that the entry should be removed for the children and young people.
world culture, Ann Follin, mean that the situation is special and that you must await the reading of the budget in culture.
– But it is enshrined in our instruction that we shall have free entry, and we have therefore no right to begin charging fees without getting the instruction as amended. It requires a special preparation that usually take time. And it makes it even is impossible to reinstate this fee from 1 January, says Ann Follin.
” I put no values in whether museums should have or not have free admission, but what is important is that we are given reasonable conditions to impose on the business. Now, it becomes very choppy. We have adapted our museums for free admission and a decision to re-introduce entrance fees require very large efforts that may have an impact, ” she says.
DN is looking for Lotta Finstorp, the cultural policy spokesman for the Conservatives.
