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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan 3, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A new law instructing Denmark's 130 nationally accredited museums to drop admission fees is causing museums to seek funds elsewhere.
The Copenhagen Post reports that the decision to offer free entrance to visitors under 18, which took effect Sunday, hurts smaller museums such as the Theatre Museum, which already offers periodic free admission to attract visitors.
"Doing so gave us three or four times as many visitors, since people could spontaneously come in off the street," Ulla Stromberg, director of the Theatre Museum, told the national daily Politiken.
The Theatre Museum hopes to counter the new competition by asking private backers to pay to sponsor the museum for a month.
The Ministry of Culture is already compensating smaller museums for income lost as a result of the new policy, but Stromberg says the funding it will be receiving will not go very far.
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