March into a Museum

With The Metropolitan Museum of Art planning a 10% reduction in its staff, and major museums across the country such as the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta slashing budgets and cutting staff, it's time to "March into a Museum." Cultural and arts institutions account for $167 million dollars a year and employ 6 million people but were almost cut out of the economic stiumulus package (zoos and aquariums were and will not receive additional federal support).

So grab your kids and go to your local museum! If you can, pay the suggested admission, eat lunch, buy souvenirs, make it a day. There has been much discussion about the recession returning us to values that we as a country had downgraded in our pursuit of wealth, such as family, education, creativity, service. What better way to enact some of these values than spending a family day together? And it could help save the jobs of some of those 6 million people.

See you at the museum!