The Met Is Set To Snap Nearly 5 Decades Of Pay-As-You-Wish Tradition
Since 1970, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has not mandated an admission fee. Come March, that will change for out-of-state visitors — but critics haven't accepted the decision quietly.
For nearly five decades, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has been technically free for all, the price of admission but a suggestion offered at the front door. All visitors could pay what they wished — or what they were able.
That 1970 policy is set to change later this year: Beginning March 1, adults who live outside New York state and who are out of school will
