The Art Newspaper first reported that France’s Minister of Culture and Communication, Audrey Azoulay, plans to increase cultural funding by 6.6% to a total of $3.2 billion next year—the largest amount of government money promised for the arts in the country’s history. 

Azoulay said in a speech on Sept. 28, “I know the difficulties confronting museums today, between a drop in attendance, particularly linked to the drop in tourism, and a rise in security expenses.”

Terror attacks in Paris and Nice have contributed to a decrease in tourism, with an estimated one million less visitors to the country last year, according to the BBC.

The 2017 budget would include a 5% increase in funding to museums, with a 12% increase for acquisitions budgets for regional and national museums.