The rent increase corresponds to an increase of eight million per year, in addition to the 14 million that the museum pays today.
The rent increase is, of course, not reasonable. We want the rent committee to take up the case, museum director Fabian Arnheim tells the newspaper.
In March, SFV announced a rent increase for the Ethnographic Museum of 57 percent, saying that the rent had not been revised in ten years.
SFV's mandate from the government is to charge market-based rents for state-owned properties, including museums and other cultural institutions. Some of them received compensation for the increased rents in the government's spring bill last week.
