Having just said in a seperate mail that I think foreigners should pay more admission than locals, I must confess that I resented the V&A system enormously when I was in London. When it costs almost R8.00 to buy 1, 4 to get into a museum, even a great one, is enormously expensive, especially for a student on a small budget (my husband) or someone like me who at the time was doing unpaid research on museums. The V&A is st up so you have to walk through turnstiles past very intimidating people standing behind tills. This made the 'voluntary' donation not feel very voluntary as if you didn't want to give 4 it was difficult to give less or one felt one needed to explain why you didn't want to pay-I used the library there quite often. These are my feelings as a visitor of museums rather than a museologists but I did feel that this was the beginning of an extremely intimidating and unfriendly museum experience. Kathryn