Up to 45 jobs are to go at Sheffield's museums over the coming
months, Museums Sheffield has said.
Chief executive Daniel Dodd said the cuts would mean the latest
exhibition, which opens on Thursday, would be the last of its kind.
The organisation currently employs 107 staff. Mr Dodd said all
savings must be made by 31 March.
It is thought that the redundancies will affect every part of
the organisation.
"Everybody is at risk, including me," said Mr Dodd.
"We all work together and it is absolutely appropriate that everybody
stands side by side in this."
He said staff, who had already taken pay cuts and had their
hours changed, were "deeply, deeply shocked and upset" by the news.
The redundancies would also have a "very serious
effect" on the city's cultural offering, he said.
"The next exhibition, The Family in British Art, is of the
highest quality - exceptional, fantastic, but it will be the last show of its
type that we will ever be able to do because we won't have the people to do it
any more."
An appeal has been launched by staff and the public, and the Museums Sheffield website
explains why the Arts Council funding was turned down.
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