Museums had a rough 2025: Report shows lower attendance, lost grants, less money

✍️ Andrew Limbong 📅 November 11, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: November 11, 2025

Summary: The American Alliance of Museums put out its annual industry snapshot and it's not great. Trump's targeting of museum programming had downstream effects and put a "chill on corporate philanthropy."

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Museums faced a whirlwind of brutal challenges in 2025. It wasn't just the federal government cancelling grants, leaving museums with holes in their budgets to fill.

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