from The Guardian
The dilettante tendency
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This serves to confirm what most people who work in a museum probably already know - you cannot get rich on a museum job (or in the UK, at least - but might also hold true elsewhere)! However, a more disconcerting trend is that the decrease in financial compensation is driving away the more disadvantaged sector of the population from working in heritage institutions, when it is now that a more diverse voice is needed in this field.