(ANSA) - Naples, July 31 - Culture Minister Alberto Bonisoli
said Tuesday that the programme that sees the public granted
free access to Italy's State museums on the first Sunday of
every month will be terminated shortly.
"After the summer we will eliminate the free Sundays for the
museums," Bonisoli said during a visit to Naples' Biblioteca
Nazionale library.
"The free Sundays were OK to start an advertising campaign
but, in my opinion, if we keep on, we'll go in a direction that
no one likes.
"Nothing is changing for the summer, but things will change
after.
"I'll let the directors have more freedom. If they want to
have a free Sunday, there's nothing wrong with that.
"But when it's obligatory, it's no good".
Bonisoli's predecessor, Dario Franceschini, called for a
rethink.
"Why stop this, Minister Bonisoli?" said Franceschini, a
member of the opposition centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
"Things that are right and function do not have a political
colour.
"Don't make the world of culture and the Italian public pay
for the political desire for a break with the past".
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