The Brooklyn Museum Has Offered Staff Voluntary Buyouts
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While on the outside, it looks like the Brooklyn Museum is having the best years since forever, museum director, Anne Pasternak, states differently.
The museum, who’s been operating on a fiscal 2016 budget of $38.6 million are now at a budget deficit of about $3 million, the NY Times reports. The only way to correct that is to cut back on their 308 full-time staff members.
On Wednesday, the museum staff was notified of the plan and offered voluntary buyouts.
“It’s a course correction,” Ms. Pasternak told the Times. “The cost of running the museum has substantially grown over the past few years. The museum is therefore being proactive.”
It’s a tough time to work at a museum as both Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA have also announced staff cutbacks.
