Looking To Cut Staff 10%, Met Museum Chops 14% Instead

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art said on Monday that it had completed a significant round of layoffs and voluntary retirements that it had warned in March would probably be necessary to contend with deep losses in its endowment. Over the last few weeks, the museum laid off 74 employees and gave retirement packages to 95 others who chose to accept them, it said.” The departures included some curatorial staff.