A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
The National Museum earns a quarter of its costs from admissions — and it can do more.
A 25.5 milliárd Ft state subsidy for the national collections, frozen at this level while the museum builds the earned revenue that funds similar institutions internationally.
Roughly 6,381 Ft per taxpayer per year — 25.5 milliárd Ft net of 6.0 milliárd Ft the museum already earns from admissions and related activity.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: the national collections preserved and open to visitors. The unseen: the gap between what the museum earns (24% of its costs) and what comparable national museums earn through admissions, membership, and philanthropy — a gap that a fixed state subsidy gives the museum no incentive to close.
Ellenvetés
"A national museum should not have to sell tickets to survive — culture has public value."
Válasz
No one proposes abolition. A nominal freeze protects the preservation duty and the collections — it simply means the subsidy does not grow as the museum could expand its own revenue through admissions, exhibitions, and donor partnerships. Twenty-four percent self-financing is a starting point, not a ceiling.
Share if you think a well-run museum should earn more of its costs over time.
Az elemző értékelése
Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Közgyűjteményi Központ
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
The national museum holds and conserves the physical objects of the country's heritage — collections that cannot be reconstituted if lost and that no private actor is positioned to take custody of at this scale. The preservation duty is genuine and bounded, which places the line outside the Immediate Cut category. But it is not a rights-protection function either, and the museum already earns substantial own-revenue: 6,015.1 millió Ft, roughly 24% of its expenditure, from admissions and related activity. A nominal freeze is the appropriate posture — it protects the custody and conservation duty while applying steady real-terms discipline (roughly a quarter erosion over a decade) and signalling that the path to closing the operating gap runs through expanded own-revenue (admissions, exhibitions, philanthropic and membership income) rather than through a growing taxpayer transfer. Many national museums internationally fund a significant share of operations this way; the 24% self-financing here is a base to build on.
Átállási mechanizmus
Hold the 25,523.4 millió Ft nominal; absorb cost growth within the envelope; treat expanded own-revenue as the route to narrowing the subsidy.
Érintett csoportok
Museum staff (no displacement under a freeze); visitors; the conservation duty (protected).
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