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The rationale for public funding of museums has not attracted much attention, either from economists or the general public. In popular debates on the public funding of museums, attention is invariably fixed on other aspects of government funding. Public concern is frequently voiced over a range of issues such as the level of public funding to museums, the funding of particular institutions, the acquisitions policies of publicly-funded museums and their audience composition, etc., but rarely over the rationale for public funding. This is hardly surprising, perhaps, since once such funding exists, its rationale is rarely questioned or considered to be of major significance.
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Duffy, C.T. (1992). The Rationale for Public Funding of a National Museum. In: Towse, R., Khakee, A. (eds) Cultural Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77328-0_5
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