The Covid-19 pandemic could shutter a third of all U.S. museums
that a new survey of 760 U.S. museums found that up to 33% are at some risk of closing permanently without “additional financial relief.”... [+]16% of survey respondents said their institution was at “significant risk” of permanently shuttering within the next 16 months without financial relief.
An additional 17% responded that they didn’t know if they were at risk, while only 67% of respondents said they did not believe there was a significant risk of closure., conducted in June, also found that 65% of museums had furloughed or laid off more than 20% of their staff, and 56% of museums only have six months or less of operating reserves remaining.
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