It is becoming increasingly expensive to keep museums open to public. What do you think is the best way of funding them (e.g. government, businesses or individuals)?
先说观点：和政府企业比，个人资助博物馆是更更好的选择。
It seems that the expense of running public museums continues to increase currently, and personally speaking, compared to businesses and governments, individuals have the ability to maintain public museums.
首先，网上募集捐助很流行，只要没有腐败，大家还是愿意拿出钱来的。
To begin with, individuals can raise funds to help public museums. Currently, online donation is a quite popular way to collect funds for people or organizations in need. If governments or businesses ask citizens to help museums by donating some money, some citizens may refuse because they are afraid that their money will be corrupted. However, sometimes, when ordinary people start such campaigns like helping public museums or helping a patient, citizens are more willing to help.
其次，志愿者也是一条路，可以省掉一笔全职员工的开支。
In addition, volunteering is also a way for individuals to help public museums. It is difficult for public museums to pay salaries of their employees, especially when public museums do not earn income from entrance fees. However, if individuals choose to be volunteers that work for museums for some hours every week, public museums will face fewer budget deficits because they do not need to recruit so many full-time employees anymore. Therefore, individuals can help public museums survive through doing jobs as volunteers.
然后，反过来说政府和企业的缺点：政府预算有限，开支不小；企业需要盈利，非长久之计。
Admittedly, governments and businesses have more money than individuals do in terms of funding public museums, but it is unrealistic to ask governments and businesses to provide public museums with funding eternally. Governments have limited budgets, and they need to distribute funding to different aspects, while funding public museums may not be a small cost for them. As for businesses, there are not so many benefits they can acquire from funding public museums because public museums do not charge visitors to enter, and even if enterprises can earn a better reputation, to what extent this reputation can be transformed into income is still a question.
结论：个人资助博物馆更合适。
To sum up, individuals are more suitable than governments and businesses for maintaining public museums, considering that they can raise funding online and do voluntary work.
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