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Yesterday the Metropolitan Museum of Art sent out a statement announcing 74 layoffs at its stores (following 53 layoffs last year) with more to come from the museum's overall staff. The NY Times reports that as many as 250 full and part time jobs may be lost before summer. While the cuts will hit every department, including curatorial, Met officials have declared the changes won't affect the museum's hours, exhibitions or standards. On top of endowment losses, "the museum will receive $1.7 million less in operating help from the city this year and has been told to expect another cutback that could be as high as $2.4 million in the next fiscal year." With the recession hitting even the most prestigious of institutions these days, the paper notes that the layoffs are also in part due to problems that its merchandising arm have been facing. If you'd like to help, they also shared that membership renewals have been on the decline (wink wink, nudge nudge).
Metropolitan Museum Lays Off, Cuts Back
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I pray that the bloated aristocracy rolls over and farts their way again soon.
Are they saying that I should now pay the full suggested fee every time I go there? I thought that was just for the tourists.
Since they're all employees of a museum, I assume most (if not all) voted for Obama,so I'm cool with them getting laid off.
/hope and change
//yes we can
since those who died yesterday by a shooter from ala. voted republican I'm ok with the sheriff's wife and kid dying.
was that too much?
There are so many morons on here. How can you generalize that museum employees (not just curators and artists, but janitorial staff, security, retail employees, catering staff, etc., etc., etc.) all voted for Obama? And even if they did, is that any reason why these people should lose their jobs and potentially lose their homes?
Some of these comments are written by idiots!
Just sell some of those old pots and canvases they have in the "basement" and everything will be fine. I'm sure someone could use them even though some of them have cracks.
You're on to something there. If the salary of the 72 employees are averaged out to even $100k/year including expenses such as health care, then that's a measly $7.2MIL. Sell a few pieces languishing in the vaults and, voila, you have enough capital to employ these people for a year until, presumably, the economy picks up.
I doubt that even ten of those employees make $100,000 a year. Maybe one or two curators, but I doubt they would dump their head curators.
The people that buy the stuff are just going to turn around in ten to twenty years and donate it back to museum anyway.
I knew a director at another museum and he referred to the MET as the warehouse on Fifth Avenue.
I just got off the phone with the Wildensteins. They'll take it all...after they do that "thing" in Zurich.