Cutbacks Cut Museum Hours To Five Hours/Month

Museums everywhere are facing funding crunches. But none so bad perhaps, as Copenhagen’s Royal Cast Museum, which holds “the world’s second-largest collection of plaster casts, and a rich selection of works representing the past 3300 years of art history from ancient Egypt to the 19th century.” The Royal Cast’s problem is not how to get more visitors, but how to keep them away – funding cuts have shrunk the museum’s hours to five a month – the “last Wednesday of every month between the hours of 10.00-15.00.”