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[00:01.06]The crowds arriving this morning says it all. [00:04.64] Albert and June Fleming from Nottingham are [00:08.40] amongst 600,000 extra visitors to the [00:11.44] Natural History Museum since the government [00:13.92]gave it the money to scrap its charges. [00:17.18] The extra expense of admission to here would, [00:24.68][00:19.45]you know, just break the camel's back, [00:25.75]the straw that broke the camel's back. [00:27.05] A 70% increase in visitors in one year [00:29.03]- it has to be a good thing. [00:31.01]The museum though isn't sure. [00:33.04]Well, sometimes we get [00:34.51]so many people in on a particular day [00:35.88]that I worry they can't enjoy themselves [00:37.79] as much because they simply can't move [00:39.06] around the museum easily. [00:40.78] Sometimes we find they stay [00:42.74]for not very long, and I worry is, [00:44.50]it's because they're not enjoying [00:46.31]themselves very much. [00:47.32]What's more, [00:48.58]coping with all these [00:49.89]extra people is expensive. [00:50.97]The museum says [00:52.09]it could go back to making people pay. [00:54.06]And then there are the thousands of [00:56.93]other museums who still have to charge. [00:58.79]The Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Telford, [01:04.08] it, like many other attractions, [01:06.05] has seen people switching to the free museums. [01:09.55] We could not possibly support this operation, [01:12.30]without our ticket income. [01:14.96] I would regret also not seeing this [01:17.99]as a commercial operation. [01:19.20]I think it, it makes us sharp, [01:21.20]it makes us tuned into the markets out there, [01:24.91] and as I say, the result has been, [01:26.88] I think, a very broad-based audience for [01:28.85]what we do here. [01:31.23]So while MP's today said free admission [01:33.36]had been largely a good thing, [01:35.68]they added it couldn't be done on the cheap.