Many of us must pay to have our garbage collected by private companies because we live in areas where our taxes do not provide this service. Thus all tax structures are not alike, anymore than the funding of museums is the same everywhere. As a non-Canadian visiting Canadian museums, should I have to pay an admission fee or does what I pay in GST(Goods and SErvices Tax, known elsewhere as VAT) take care of my part of the tax support? By the way, my visits to the Museum of Anthropology at U.B.C. and the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria both required paying an admission fee. Karol Schmiegel, Winterthur Museum