Museums with New Buildings or Renovations Feel the Pinch Even Harder

At the beginning, it was just a trickle of museums suffering from the sudden onslaught of financial panic, but now it’s quickly become the norm. Robin Pogrebin has a great story, “Museum Growth Meets Hard Times,” which looks at the current state of museums who either built fancy new digs while things were good, or expanded with new wings and renovations, and where they’re at now. In short, it’s a story of what’s become the new regular fixture of the museum industry: layoffs, cutbacks, fewer visitors, and less corporate donations.