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This article was first published by the Museums Association.
There are “serious reservations” among some sector leaders over the UK Government’s plans to explore scrapping free entry for overseas visitors to England’s national cultural institutions.
The proposal is one of several transformative measures recommended by the Labour peer Margaret Hodge’s review of Arts Council England that have now been accepted by the arts council and DCMS.
In their responses to the Hodge review, published yesterday, both bodies confirmed that they will “accept or explore” all of the recommendations made by the review.
This will mean a wholesale reform of the arts council, including scrapping its 10-year strategy, Let’s Create, which launched in 2020 but has been criticised as overly prescriptive, and refreshing the National Portfolio process.
