Museum News Round-Up; Salary surprises, banks as curators, hot dog vendors not welcome
- August 30, 2009 18:31
First, the news outlets continue to fixate on museum officials' salaries. The focus lately is Ellen Futter of the American Museum of Natural History in New York who reels in about $1 million. Second, with museums across the country in financial straits, the NY Times reports that massive financial institutions like Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are lending exhibitions to museums for a small fee, with their company branding all over it. Finally, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is cracking down on food vendors outside the museum.
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