A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
A museum with zero own income — frozen, not cut, until it earns some.
The Hungarian Museum of Architecture holds a unique conservation archive but records no admission, licensing, or sponsorship revenue at all — the freeze holds the line while a voluntary-revenue base is built.
Roughly 235 Ft per taxpayer per year — 950.5 millió Ft, frozen at the 2026 level, falling in real terms at 2-3% inflation per year as own-revenue grows.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: a collecting archive of architectural drawings, plans, and documents held in public trust. The unseen: the admission and licensing revenue the museum does not charge, which would reduce the call on every taxpayer — a museum that charges nothing generates a permanent subsidy from those who never visit it.
Ellenvetés
"Cultural archives are public goods — admission fees would make them inaccessible to those who can't afford them."
Válasz
A freeze does not require pricing out any visitor. It requires the museum to develop any earned revenue — reproduction and licensing fees, corporate sponsorship of conservation, membership — against a fixed nominal budget. At 2-3% inflation the real allocation falls roughly 20-25% over a decade, giving the museum ten years to build a revenue base before the line is reviewed for reduction. Conservation continues; only the full subsidy is questioned.
Share if you think a museum recording zero own revenue should have to earn some before the state line grows further.
Az elemző értékelése
Magyar Építészeti Múzeum
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
The Museum of Architecture is a collecting institution — it holds and conserves the documentary record of Hungarian architecture (drawings, plans, models, archives). A conservation archive is a bounded, self-limiting mandate of a different character from the academy's grant-making and annuity functions: the question is not whether the state should subjectively allocate resources among competing artists, but whether a physical collection already in public hands is conserved. The collection's existence is not itself a reason for tax financing — museums can and do operate on admission revenue, membership, endowment, and donation — but a custodial archive cannot responsibly be cut to zero in a single cycle without risking irreversible loss of material, and the museum currently records no own revenue at all, so there is no fee base to scale up against in one year. The honest classification is therefore a freeze, not a cut: hold the nominal allocation and require the museum to develop admission, reproduction-fee, membership, and sponsorship revenue against the frozen line. At 2-3% inflation, the freeze erodes the real allocation by roughly 20-25% over a decade, which is the period over which a voluntary-revenue base can realistically be built. The placement of the museum in the MMA chapter rather than under the general museums budget is an organisational accident of the 2011 statute; the freeze classification does not depend on it.
Átállási mechanizmus
Hold the 2026 nominal allocation flat in forward budgets. Direct the museum to publish an own-revenue development plan — admission, reproduction and licensing fees, membership, corporate sponsorship of conservation — and report own-revenue growth annually. Review for reclassification once the own-revenue share is established.
Érintett csoportok
The museum's staff (no displacement under a freeze); architecture researchers and the public who use the collection (no service reduction; the conservation mandate continues).
Szabad Társadalom Intézet
Támogasd a független elemzéseket
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