The City of New York announced on Monday that $2.8 million it had received as a result of allowing the Metropolitan Museum of Art to change its admissions policy would be allocated to more than 175 other cultural organizations. Among the institutions that will benefit are El Museo del Barrio, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. “This agreement with the Met has paid dividends for NYC’s cultural community,” said the city’s cultural affairs commissioner, Tom Finkelpearl, adding that the arrangement was “stabilizing one of our city’s major institutions with increased admissions revenue, while providing a much-needed boost to organizations that anchor communities across the city.”In 2018 the Met was allowed to change its pay-what-you-wish policy of 48 years to require that visitors from outside New York State pay $25. The change came at the behest of museum officials who were concerned about revenue.

Source: New York Times March 18, 2019 20:48 UTC