Audrey Azoulay, France’s minister of culture and communication, said that she will be increasing funding to French museums in 2017 due to the decrease in tourism and the rise in security costs since the Paris terrorist attacks that took place last November in the Bataclan theatre, which killed 130 people. Azoulay will set aside nearly $3.3 billion—the largest amount of government money designated for the arts in the country’s history. There will be a twelve percent increase for acquisitions budgets for national and regional museums, and a five percent boost to museum budgets overall.