TATE museums to reduce 7 % of the workforce amid financial challenges

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Tate, which runs four Showrooms In England, it is scheduled to reduce its operating power by about 7 %, or about 40 employees, as it faces a financial deficit that remains the epidemic. These cuts, which will be made primarily through voluntary departure and recruitment freezing, come as cultural institutions all over the world for prolonged economic contraction.

Spokesman Tate This step confirmed in a statement to the Financial Times, explaining that the decision will help “cancel the deficit that many museums such as Tate since the epidemic.”

“Changes … Make sure that Tate can continue to provide leading programs, build and share our group with the widest possible year, and inspire future generations of creative talents,” the statement continued.

TATE collection includes four museums: Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate LivePool and Tate St evees. The announcement of discounts comes at a time when the Foundation works on many prominent and costly projects, including expanding the scope Tate Liverpool And the restoration of Palais De Danse in TATE ST IVES, a second -class building that served as a studio for the famous artist Barbara Hepmore. About 30 % of the TATE income comes from government grants.

Maria Palo, director of Tate and head of the National Museum Manager Council, tackled the workforce in her own statement to the Financial Times. She emphasized that the TATE administration “” carefully simplified the workforce through voluntary means “and focused on developing new revenue flows to preserve its ambitious programs.

“TATE has an ambitious program to develop our fans throughout the country and beyond,” Tate spokesman explained to The Guardian. “To eliminate the remaining deficit from the epidemic, we have strengthened new income flows, prepared the priorities of our most influential activities, and we carefully simplified our working strength.”

The PROSICT Federation with TATE was involved in the proposed changes, as it provided support to the affected employees. Sharon Brown, National Secretary of Heritage in the Federation, emphasized the decisive role museum She said that workers in preserving cultural institutions: “We are clear that the experience and experience of workers in museums and exhibition, who are often less than their value and less than their value, is what brings groups alive, which is essential to the success of the sector,” as reported by the guardian.

Brown called for an increase in investment in both the workforce of the arts and institutions themselves, which are vital for the economy of local and international visitors in the United Kingdom, as well as its cultural position.

In 2020, workers at Tate’s Commercial Arm (Tate Enterprises) struck protest plans to reduce 313 jobs, demanding the use of government rescue funds to provide jobs and call to finish repetition

Museums – and the broader culture sectors – move throughout Europe and beyond in the financial repercussions of the epidemic, as well as the budgets of the severed government culture. The approved discounts last month, for example, witnessed 150 million euros perceived Financing the French Ministry of CultureLeave museums, theaters and festivals. Local councils have also been stripped of 2.2 billion euros of government support, which led them to reduce their artistic financing by up to 70 %.

Among the challenges facing many institutions is a permanent decrease in attendance. According to the data issued in February by the UK Ministry of Culture, Information and Sports, DCMS museum visits were 15 % less in the last quarter of 2024 than the equivalent period in 2019 (before birth).

In addition to the cuts in the budgets of general culture, many institutions were forced to consider radical work. Last year, for example, the former interim director of the British Museum, Sir Mark Jones, suggested that foreign visitors be charged with cultural institutions in the United Kingdom 20 pounds, entry fees To help enhance financial affairs.