Budget Cuts Hurting Arizona’s Museums
Submitted by Administrator on August 2, 2009 – 7:21 PM
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- by Jim Walsh
Even as Arizona prepares for its centennial in 2012, the state’s history is becoming less and less accessible to the average citizen.
Museums across Arizona are cutting hours, restricting programs, merging or closing altogether in the face of drastic budget problems.
The State Archives, which had been open only two half-days a week, is trying to figure out how to go to a four-day schedule with a diminished staff.
And state parks, many with historical significance, can’t turn enough money at the gate to maintain aging and sometimes-dangerous facilities and stay open.
