Absolutely. They cost too much, churn out more people than the field can sustain, mire recipents in lifelong debt, encourage wage theft and labor abuses via unpaid internships, disenfranchise oppressed people, and don't prepare workers with ethical and cultural competency. https://twitter.com/from_muse/status/1298988822772871171

Museums have a raging inferiority complex and want to be seen as academic ivory towers rather than populist attractions hence the rampant overcredentialing, ovewhelming whiteness, and slavish devotion to philanthropy.

Many of them had to be dragged kicking and screaming toward integration or lose federal or municipal funding and they've been resentful ever since.

Museums are a brilliant idea in theory that falls flat in practice with disastrous consequences. It's naive to think places that physically restricted us just the generation before mine wouldn't move the goalposts. They think we should be grateful they let us in the doors.

Oh wait - and let's not forget how many museum jobs and internships are promised to friends and families of well-connected donors putting even more of a squeeze on the job market.