Question 17168 — cultural heritage

Summary

Mr. Maxime Michelet draws the attention of the Minister of Culture to the assessment and prospects for generalization of differentiated pricing applicable to non-European visitors in national cultural establishments. Announced in 2024 and coming into force on January 1, 2026, this experimental measure concerns five of the most popular sites in France: the Louvre Museum, the Sainte-Chapelle, the Opéra Garnier, the Château de Versailles and the Château de Chambord. Six months after its implementation, the first lessons appear encouraging. The increase in the price of entry tickets has not given rise to any notable protest or significant dissuasive effect on the attendance of non-European tourists. While national museums and monuments face considerable investment needs, this increased contribution from non-European visitors constitutes a legitimate and welcome resource for the preservation of French heritage, without burdening French taxpayers. The Chambord estate, which increased its ticket price by ten euros for non-European visitors, anticipating a net profit of around 450,000 euros for the year, has already garnered 300,000 euros in profit for the first half of the year. The Louvre, for its part, intends to allocate these new revenues to financing part of its work. This new resource appears all the more valuable as the investment needs of national museums and monuments reach an unprecedented level. In a recent report, the Court of Auditors warns of the financial impasse facing the renovation of large heritage establishments. While the total cost of the fourteen main projects carried out between 2015 and 2025 exceeds two billion euros, the needs for the decade which opens represent more than double, the Court evoking a veritable “investment wall” which public credits, in stagnation, will not allow to overcome. He therefore asks him to specify whether the Government intends to perpetuate and extend this system to all national museums and monuments managed by the Center of National Monuments, so that this resource new fully benefits the maintenance and enhancement of national heritage.

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