[pjc50]

> museum(s) — with free entry no less

The tax paying public aren't going to pay for that.

The existing collections can just about barely justify free entry. Most museums have a vast secondary collection that's not on display already. These items are going in a warehouse because there isn't enough money to do archaeology on them any time soon, let alone prep them for display.

[Angostura]

Or do what the V&A has done in Docklands - make its warehouse available for the public to visit. Pretty cool day out.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/east/storehouse/visit

[OJFord]

Second that, it's really good. You can only really see a small fraction of it still, just because of the nature of it (it's like a central viewing space completely surrounded by warehouse shelving) but really interesting, from the meta perspective of seeing how they store and tend to pieces too.

For example, there's a bunch of swords 'on display' (such as it is) and then you can sort of just about see an entire sword storage/curation room off to one side, with many times more than are actually visible in some detail.

[notahacker]

Science Museum opens its warehouse in Swindon to the public too

Highly recommended for people with an interest in vehicles, but there's a lot of other stuff from twentieth century consumer goods to the contents of Stephen Hawkings office on shelves there and document archives too.

[whywhywhywhy]

London already has free museums and galleries fyi

[Arbortheus]

London has loads of exceptional museums that are completely free. If you ever have the chance to visit the city, do try to take advantage!

[Reason077]

Entry to the main/permanent collections is free, but there are usually one or more special exhibitions at each museum that are paid entry.

[N_Lens]

Sadly we’re in the era where everything has a price but nothing is valued.