Ielts sample essays collection

 
Example 2 
In this short essay I will elaborate on the question whether or not it is better that 
museums and art galleries charge admission fees.There are several advantages and 
disadvantages concerning charging an admission fee which I will try to explain. 
In general, I believe that museums and galleries should charge a fee to visitors but 
the amount should be arranged according to the person’s situation. What I mean is 
that there should be a standard fee for regular persons as well as special reduced 
fees for students, small children, disabled humans and/or other types of financial
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vulnerable people. The reason for a reduced fee is that a maximum amount of people 
are able to enjoy these cultural activities because everybody has the right to 
experience cultural enrichment. 
Now I will explain why I think charging an admission fee is that important. The main 
reason is that this will ensure that the museum or gallery will have enough funds to 
make sure that it stays in an excellent condition. Because if the building and art 
collection decline
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in time then in the end nobody will be able to enjoy these cultural 
riches. The second reason is that if their funds will hopefully enlarge that it will give 
them the possibility to buy more art or historical pieces for their gallery. That way 
they can keep expanding and will be able to safeguard our cultural inheritance. 
The main disadvantage, despite the existence of reduced fees, is that some people 
will still have insufficient funds to afford such an admission fee. Therefore it is maybe 
a 
important 
idea to provide free entrance to very poor people if they can somehow 
demonstrate their situation. Where I live, in Belgium, really poor people have a 
document that proves that they don’t have a living. Such document
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can maybe be 
used to give them free entrance. 
In Belgium there are different museums that have such an admission fee policy such 
as the museum of modern art in Brussels. I don’t know an example that has fees in