AFTER DECADE OF EXPANSION, UK MUSEUMS MAY BE OVEREXTENDED

A decade of expansion has left many British museums struggling to pay for running all those shiny new buildings they have only just opened, Deyan Sudjic writes in The Guardian. “Everybody is feeling the squeeze,” says Charles Saumarez Smith, director of the National Gallery. “In retrospect, it’s inconceivable that so much money should have been invested in capital projects without any money going into endowment funds.” “We are having to balance our budget by cutting back on programs and using natural wastage to cut jobs,” adds Tate director Nicholas Serota.