谢振礼 雅思范文: 资助博馆 20181020
IELTS Writing Task 2
China 2018-10-20
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Report shows that it is increasingly expensive to keep museums open to public. Find the best way to fund museums among these funding possibilities—governments, businesses, individuals.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
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Report says that one museum after another has been faced with financial problems over the past years of recession and lagging economic recovery. Without adequate funding, many of the largest museums have taken the cost-cutting steps, but others—especially smaller institutions—have continued to struggle to keep their operations going on. Because it is increasingly expensive to maintain non-profit museums, sufficient money must be raised from both government sources and private donations.
Grants-in-aid from governments must form a bigger proportion of the income of many museums at different levels. As a major way to fund museums, the public sector should do more. It is reported that, in extreme cases, museums even face growing pressure to sell off works unless public funding can improve in time. Report also shows that there may be no substitutes for the increased government support for those museums in the ling-lasting financial crisis, and that money is urgently needed. Although, in the face of such adversity, museums have shown great resilience and creativity in generating new sources of revenue, those troubled institutions can only be sustainable with stronger government backing in the form of public policies to fund museums’ daily operations. Considering that museums preserve a country’s collective memory for future generations, the importance of public funding in museums should not be underestimated.
Donors occupy an important part in functioning of a museum, especially when government funding is limited. This way of funding can be done by providing money for new programs and spaces, as well as giving works of art as gifts to the museum’s collections. For example, museums may in turn tailor themselves to the needs of their donors by endowing spaces, hosting special events, and affording certain privileges to donors, including the right to rent a museum’s space for businesses and individuals. As public funding for museums continues to decline, donations from the private sector are therefore impossible to ignore. With museums suffering from cash-strapped government sources in a tough economic climate, private donations as tax-deductible investments may be expected to plug the funding gap and help museums to fulfill multiple roles, from education to entertainment to the routine matter of looking after collections.
In conclusion, the rising costs of keeping museums open to public will require more funding from both public sector and private sector as the best way to tide over the current financial stress. Without a joint strategy to give a helping hand, one museum after another is likely to find it increasingly difficult to make their ends meet.
