OREANDA-NEWS Russian President Vladimir Putin positively assessed the growth of museums' incomes by 2.5 times in recent years.

“It’s decent,” he said at a meeting with Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky, commenting on this figure.

"Since museums have ceased to be a repository of artifacts and objects of art for the nobility and nobility, since then museums have become more and more wide and accessible, they have three main functions: preservation, study, popularization," the minister said . According to him, the authorities put the task of popularization and education - the new functionality of the museum business - at the forefront. "And there are certain fruits, thanks to the work of our wonderful museum staff," stated Medina.

According to him, in general, the attendance of museums in the country for six years exceeded 150 million people, the number of tickets sold has doubled, and in federal museums the growth is even greater. “At the same time, we significantly increased the budget support of our federal museums: both for salaries, for creation and opening of new expositions,” the minister added. “Except for repair and restoration, put it out of the brackets, then the amount of budget investments in federal museums grew over the years, almost 70%, which is also reflected in the growth of museums' own extrabudgetary income. "