The Museum Kaart (Museum Card) gives you free access to approximately 400 museums throughout the Netherlands. It costs around 25 euro for an annual pass.
When you consider that the entry prices of the 4 most popular Amsterdam museums are
rijksmuseum 9, van gogh 10, stedelijk 8, and rembrandt house 7.50; total 35.50then you can see that this makes a considerable saving to the card holder. Once you have purchased your card you can visit all the museums as often as you like. The catch is, the card is only available to dutch residents.
(prices taken from this site)
http://www.dynamic.holland.com
Effectively, the result is that residents pay a token annual fee to have unlimited free access to all the museums and that foreigners (non residents) pay the full price and thus provide the majority of the museum funding.
Its state endorsed racial discrimination.
Having said that, perhaps its a system that the Australian Museum Association should adopt. Free museum card available to all Australian citizens (produce a birth certificate or citizenship papers) and all tourists can pay a full entry price. It would certainly assist in arts funding.
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