The Art Newspaper questions the federation’s 9% fall in revenue this year, suggesting it is more likely to be around 50%.
England’s 15 national museums have come off relatively well from the government’s emergency funding for the arts—but the future is much bleaker for the thousands of independent and local authority museums. It has not yet been announced how much of the £1.57bn rescue package will go to regional museums, but it will be only a small proportion. The bulk will be for music and the performing arts, which have been even worse hit by coronavirus.
Source:https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museum-revenues-to-fall-by-just-9-seriously