Message #118331

[3rdRockFromTheFun]

I agree Christopher - if the museum is doing a fundraiser - then fine, sell dinner seats to lectures or whatever. If a museum is getting free labor by "sponsoring" digs and sifting the keepers - fine. But to combine the two is just humiliating - you pay to work for them.

Even that I could probably live with but there was a long thread here somewhere on this board that discusses all of the things museums give and throw away (including collections people have taken a lifetime gathering and donated to them in their wills). I'm not intending to demonize all museums or in all ways - there's a lot of good. But this is not one of them.