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In my experience the impact from mandatory museum fees is that people will not make short museum visits. A single new exhibit is not worth $25, nor is a 1 hour visit after lunch or before dinner. When there's a large cost visiting the museum becomes an event, something that gets planned into the day's schedule for many hours. I'm curious to see if the fees have any impact on the number of out of town visitors.

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With the lines at NYC museums, making a short one hour visit is almost impossible. To be able to make a donation less that $25 suggested fee, one has to stand in those lines. People that make the short visits tend to pay for a membership that allow them to bypass the line.

A good solution would be affordable long time tickets. Why not a yearlong ticket for $50? I don’t think the revenue would be less than with single tickets but take away all pressure of making the best out of the ticket.

Its called a membership and most museums offer them.

In most cases it is about 3 times the price of a regular one time ticket and gives you unlimited access to the museum as well as discounts in the stores, early access to exhibitions etc...

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