Sky

British Museum worker accused of stealing artefacts 'not cooperating with investigation', chairman says

A former British Museum worker under suspicion over the disappearance of around 2,000 items is not cooperating with an investigation, the institution has said. Senior curator Peter Higgs was sacked after the items, worth millions of pounds, were found to ...
The Daily Telegraph

Museum worker sacked after putting his own painting on display

A German museum worker has been sacked for putting one of his own paintings on display in the hope it would make him famous. According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, a German newspaper, the 51-year-old smuggled his painting into the museum and put it up on a wall.
Artnet

Workers at Some of the World’s Largest Museums Are Demanding Fairer Pay

From the Tate strike in London to a major unionization push at the Met in New York, museum workers are fighting for livable wages and job security. Staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art hold up a banner indicating their desire to unionize. The have ...
The Independent

British Museum worker sacked after items found ‘stolen or damaged’

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a ...
The Art Newspaper

Denver Art Museum workers launch campaign to form union

Hundreds of workers at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) have begun the process of forming a union. The workers announced their intent to unionise on 11 January via a press release and a post on Instagram, stating: “We seek to foster a creative, cooperative ...
Personnel Today

Museum worker loses sex discrimination claim

A male museum worker who brought a claim against his employer for sex discrimination has lost his case, with the judge finding that he was the person treating men and women differently. Jonathan McMurray worked for the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum as a ...
Daily Mail

'Mansplaining' museum worker who accused female colleague of sex discrimination over 'angry rant on men' loses case

A museum worker who claimed a female colleague targeted him with an 'angry rant on men', has lost his sex discrimination case after a judge ruled his own mansplaining behaviour was to blame. Jonathan McMurray claimed a female colleague went on an 'angry ...
The Mirror

Museum worker tried wearing Native American artifacts and stole them faces jail

A museum worker who tried wearing Native American artifacts and then stole them faces up to 10 years in jail. Preston Jay Spotted Eagle, 31, from Browning, pleaded guilty to stealing culturally significant artifacts including a grizzly bear necklace ...
The Art Newspaper

Unionised Whitney Museum workers ratify their first contract after 16 months of negotiations

After more than a year of negotiations, unionised workers at the Whitney Museum of American art and the museum’s administration announced on Monday (6 March) that the union had ratified its first contract. The union, a part of Local 2110 of the United ...
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