The cabinet must spend an extra 29.5 million euros on culture annually. The emergency aid of the Tropenmuseum (Tropical Museum) must be added to the budget for museums and extra money must be made available for an orchestra for light music, such as the Metropole Orchestra.

This is according to the advice the Council for Culture sent to the government on Wednesday, Volkskrant reports.

The Tropenmuseum threatened to collapse after the Royal Tropical Institute, of which the museum was part, lost its annual 20 million euros grant from the Ministry of Foreign affairs. The Tropenmuseum, which split off, then received temporary support from the Ministry of Culture. Thanks to a bailout by the Tweede Kamer, lower house of parliament, the Metropole Orchestra has public funding until 2017.

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