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The central atrium of the British Museum, London (photo by William Warby/Flickr)

An all-day strike yesterday saw operations at a number of UK museums stopped or decreased as nearly 250,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union walked off the job over caps on pay and pensions, the Guardian reported. A related picket further targeted the National Gallery in London over the privatization of visitor services, Museums Journal reported.

The protest at the National Gallery was planned to coincide with the opening of Rembrandt: The Late Works, an exhibition that had also been targeted the day before, when activist group BP or not BP? interrupted its October 14 press preview. The group was formed to oppose the British Museum’s relationship with BP but objected in this case to the Rembrandt exhibition’s Shell sponsorship....Continue Reading

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