Staff cuts loom at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery as budget bites

Financial issues are forcing TMAG to reduce its opening hours and cut staff numbers, the Board of Trustees has announced.
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The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) in Hobart will reduce its opening hours from November, and also cut staff numbers in an effort to address an annual financial shortfall of $1 million.

The changes – which sources say will create savings of only $300,000 a year – are designed to ensure TMAG can continue to ‘sustainably deliver an outstanding cultural offering to Tasmanians and visitors,’ according to a statement made by the Board of Trustees on Monday.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts