it’s unfair to boast about all the things your institution does for the community when you can’t pay your employees that make it possible a liveable wage. https://twitter.com/JuliaKennedy_/status/1198537479432888324

signed, someone who’s working in their third museum in 6 years whose friends in the same field with the same experience make 3x their salary in non-museum jobs.

this is a good thread with some solid opinions from museum workers (and some absolutely clueless ones from people who’ve been to a museum like, twice.) but i recommend the read if only to see that museum workers TRY to push for these things. we’re just often met with resistance.