Senior figures from politics, education and the arts leapt to defend free admission to Britain’s most famous museums and galleries after a senior Tory suggested that charges could be reintroduced.

The campaigners hailed the success of free access to museums, which has attracted an extra 30 million people to the nation’s great artistic and cultural collections since admission charges were scrapped six years ago. It followed a campaign by The Independent to end charges.

Read full article (The Independent, June 18, 2007)

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