Effects of the Great Recession on museums
Art museums in the United States and the United Kingdom were affected greatly by the Great Recession. Dwindling financial endowments from wealthy patrons forced some museums to make difficult and controversial decisions to deaccession artwork from their collections to gain funds, or in the case of the Rose Art Museum, to close the institution and sell the entire collection.
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