[BCMA] CMA Clipping Service: Sep 10

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Here are a couple of financial warning signs for our big museums:

- item 1 below reveals the Glenbow (Calgary) ran out of superficial 
cost-cutting options and had to dramatically reduce its staff this year. If 
this becomes a trend, its worth as a museum will soon evaporate; it'll 
become merely a storehouse. As seen in the article, a former official 
identifies the dilemma such institutions have come to face: First, annual 
income from all sources (grants, sales, rentals, donations, endowments, fund 
drives) simply do not match yearly outlays, so its either run a deficit or 
make cuts, and as said here, since staff is 60% of the budget, that's where 
management now looks - the largest regular expenditure. Second, its neither 
fish nor fowl. Years ago in smaller quarters these museums subsisted on 
grants and volunteer labour. Then they grew very big in the 1970s - 90s. But 
the governments that funded their expansions and early years of operating, 
soon drew back, forcing them into a cramped twisted mold of a non-profit on 
one hand, a cost-recovery business on the other. And this model now reveals 
itself as unworkable.

- item 5 below laments the failure of the Biosphere (Montreal) to maintain 
its education programme due to Federal Gov't cuts. Blame is heaped upon the 
Conservative's anti-environmentalism stance, but surely its neither that 
crass nor simple. I believe its another case of one generation creating a 
monument that the next one does not see the same value therein, and the 
latter expects it to fend much more for itself. The Biosphere in turn cuts 
staff to meet its deficit. For now, the Quebec government, with its much 
more supportive cultural funding stance than say, Alberta, will allow for an 
accreted Federal-funded activity to be cut away, but not the mainstays as 
the Glenbow is doing. Yet what happens when Quebec hits its own deficit and 
debt wall? It looks like the Biosphere is in its own crammed twisted fiscal 
mold.

What's needed is a new outlook on these large museums. How many are needed? 
Can there be a two-tier system? A few fully functioning public emporia 
supported by scores of outlying repositories? What other models might there 
be?

Dan Gallacher

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o Glenbow Museum at centre of storm
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o Place aux cultures d'ailleurs
o Biosphère: Cuts cloud future of nature museum
o The Pitch: Rule Britannia! at the Gardiner Museum
o Orange 2012 - Une cuvée rouge sanguine
o Vancouver Maritime Museum named as one of world's best
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Glenbow Museum at centre of storm
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 It might have been a mild summer for most of Calgary, but for the Glenbow 
Museum, it was storm season.
After a tough summer in which 14 employees were laid off due to a budget 
shortfall, the museum's CEO
and president Kirstin Evenden spoke to the Herald just ahead of the museum's 
annual general meeting.
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Art contemporain - Enquête sur la réception de l'art
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WAG the arts scene
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Place aux cultures d'ailleurs
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en effet un plongeon dans les arts et créations tirés du Nigeria et de 
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Biosphère: Cuts cloud future of nature museum
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 Four-year-olds can join the Eel Squad; at age 6 and 7, you can become a 
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The Pitch: Rule Britannia! at the Gardiner Museum
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 After four months, the Gardiner Museum will close its Rule Britannia! 
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Orange 2012 - Une cuvée rouge sanguine
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quatrième édition sera inaugurée
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pour découvrir sa vraie
nature. Sous sa peau, sa chair est juteuse, savoureuse et, plus que jamais 
cette année, rouge sanguine.
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 Marine Insite magazine has just named Vancouver Maritime Museum as one of 
the 10 best facilities of its
kind in the world. That's a high-water mark when you consider it sails on 
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