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# What Is the Most Expensive City to Visit Museums?
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/most-expensive-museum-city/
- Published: 2011-02-08T17:46:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:38.000Z
- Description: According to Leah Sandals's charticle over at This Magazine, titled "Admission Impossible," the answer to that question may be Toronto. Gaze at her chart and be amazed.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Museums, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

According to art critic Leah Sandals’s charticle over at *This Magazine*, titled “[Admission Impossible](http://this.org/magazine/2010/11/12/museum-admission-costs/?ref=hyperallergic.com),” the answer to that question may be Toronto.

Gaze at her chart, which was published a few months ago, and be amazed:

[![](http://hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2011/02/10nd-museum-cost.png "10nd-museum-cost-569x600")](http://this.org/magazine/2010/11/12/museum-admission-costs/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

I did some more research about museums around the world and those Torontonian institutions, hell all the Canadian’s ones, look pretty darn pricey in comparison:

- Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo) — 600 Yen (US$7.26)
- Bridgestone Museum of Art (Tokyo) — 800 Yen (US$9.71)
- Sao Paolo Museum of Art (Sao Paolo) — R$15 (US$8.94)
- National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico City) — 45-150 pesos (US$3.74-$15.80)
- South African National Gallery (Cape Town) — R15 (US$2.07)
- National Museum (Cairo) — £E20 (US$3.36)
- Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (Istanbul) — 12 TL (US$7.61)
- Alte Nationalgalerie (Berlin) — 8 Euro (US$10.89)
- Hong Kong Museum of Art (Hong Kong) — HK$10 (US$1.29)
- Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) — 300 RUB (US$10.27)

So, why are Canadian museum so pricey? They certainly aren’t better than the others on the list.

Sandals has more discussion about the issue over at [her blog](http://neditpasmoncoeur.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-museum-access-facts-from-this-mag.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), which is always a good read for those interested in the Canadian art scene.