{"id":9595,"date":"2014-01-02T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T02:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=9595"},"modified":"2014-01-02T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T02:55:10","slug":"shouldnt-museum-conservators-be-paid-like-museum-fund-raisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/01\/02\/shouldnt-museum-conservators-be-paid-like-museum-fund-raisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn&#039;t museum conservators be paid like museum fund raisers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a fund raising pitch from the Museum of Modern Art which offered me a chance to win lunch and\u00a0a look\u00a0behind the scenes of\u00a0the museum\u00a0&#8212; a\u00a0visit to\u00a0the storage rooms full of extraordinary works,\u00a0a state-of-the art conservation lab where artworks are treated, and the imaging studio where artworks are photographed&#8211; \u00a0if I donated at least $25 before the end of 2013.\u00a0 It made me wonder why, if at least this museum views its conservation\u00a0department as\u00a0 valuable for fundraising, aren&#8217;t museum conservators paid\u00a0at anywhere near the same level as fundraisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a fund raising pitch from the Museum of Modern Art which offered me a chance to win lunch and\u00a0a look\u00a0behind the scenes of\u00a0the museum\u00a0&#8212; a\u00a0visit to\u00a0the storage rooms full of extraordinary works,\u00a0a state-of-the art conservation lab where artworks are treated, and the imaging studio where artworks are photographed&#8211; \u00a0if I donated at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/01\/02\/shouldnt-museum-conservators-be-paid-like-museum-fund-raisers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shouldn&#039;t museum conservators be paid like museum fund raisers?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}