The Future of Museums (Funding) in the Next Trump Administration?

I've been wondering about the support that museums and other cultural organizations may or may not receive in the next Trump administration. Given that the previous Trump administration actively tried to eliminate funding for IMLS, NEH, NEA, PBS, and the NASA Office of Education, among other agencies, who knows what might happen?

This poem by Wendell Barry helps me reflect on the uncertainties of my museum work.

“The Real Work” by Wendell Berry

It may be that when we no longer know what to do

we have come to our real work,

and that when we no longer know which way to go

we have come to our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

The impeded stream is the one that sings.

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