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The museum, which was expanded with a twin building, opened in June 2016.
Since then it has been called “Museum Penzberg – Campendonk Collection”.
Since then, the current admission prices have applied.
They were only set out in statutes in January 2017. © RalF Ruder
The city council has decided to slightly increase the admission prices for the “Museum Penzberg – Campendonk Collection”.
However, they still remain significantly cheaper than the other Expressionist museums in the region.
There was also a brief discussion about the Penzberg Museum in principle.
Penzberg – Entry to the “Museum Penzberg – Campendonk Collection” has cost seven euros since 2016.
Children and young people aged six to 16 pay three euros.
The reduced price for pupils and students aged 17 and over and for the disabled is four euros.
This week, the city council decided, against the votes of the SPD parliamentary group, to raise prices slightly.
In the future, adults will pay eight euros, children and young people will pay 3.50 euros.
The reduced price increases to five euros.
Still well below the prices in Kochel, Murnau and Bernried
This means that the Penzberg Museum is still well below the admission prices of the other expressionist museums in the region.
Visitors pay 9.50 euros in the Kochler Franz Marc Museum, ten euros in the Murnau Castle Museum, 13 euros in the Bernried Buchheim Museum and twelve euros in the Munich Lenbachhaus.
Monique van Eijk, new deputy head of the city's department for communication, culture and economy, presented the list with the price comparison to the city council for orientation.
An increase in fees “after seven years appears appropriate and justifiable,” she explained.
“External factors in particular” would play a role: the rising costs for energy, freelance workers and public sector employees, for whom tariffs have been raised several times since 2016.
There was also talk of an increase to ten euros
There was also briefly talk of increasing the entry price significantly, from seven to ten euros.
Aleksandar Trifunovic suggested this on behalf of the CSU parliamentary group.
However, the nine votes from the CSU and SPD were not enough for a majority.
However, there was a majority in favor of Adrian Leinweber's (SPD) proposal that holders of the volunteer card be allowed to enter the museum free of charge.
The six opposing votes came from the ranks of the BfP, the Greens and the PM.
The alternative would have been to charge volunteer card holders a reduced price of five euros.
“I know that I’m making myself terribly unpopular now.”
SPD city council member Thomas Keller suggested a fundamentally different approach to fee increases (“I know that I am making myself terribly unpopular now”) in view of the financial situation.
He first recalled the Weilheim city council's recent decision, which increased daycare fees by around 30 percent "due to the same situation as us."
In Penzberg there will be no way around raising the fees not only at the museum, but also at the other facilities, said Keller.
He recommended that the city council work out a percentage that it would apply evenly to all fee increases this year, whether it is ten, twenty or thirty percent like in Weilheim.
“Our request is to treat everyone equally.” Regarding the museum, he said he had no idea how to consolidate the budget if a fee was increased from seven to eight euros.
Proposal: transfer the museum to a foundation
Wolfgang Sacher (BfP), on the other hand, brought up an idea that his group had already presented in 2016 shortly after the reopening of the expanded museum: transferring the museum to a non-profit foundation.
Things have become a bit quiet about the foundation idea.
“You shouldn’t let the idea disappear completely,” he said.
In this way, said Sacher, the city budget could be completely relieved of museum operations.
“No matter how we do it, the museum will always remain a deficit operation.”
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Leinweber: High deficit is incomprehensible
Adrian Leinweber (SPD) intervened there.
He warned early on about follow-up costs, but hardly anyone believed him.
“Now we’re ready.” There’s a deficit that he’s horrified about.
According to Leinweber, he is not saying that Penzberg doesn't need a museum at all, but a planned deficit of 889,000 euros is incomprehensible to him.