The Lucas Sardine Museum has handed over 15 full -time employees, many of whom are from the organization’s education and programming team.
The museum said on Tuesday that workers’ layoffs reach 14 % of full -time employees. The museum said that seven additional employees are part -time, and their roles were eliminated.
Two people were familiar with the museums who asked not to reveal his identity for fear of revenge the scene as horrific and chaos on Thursday morning, when the employees were called in morning meetings with human resources, they informed that their jobs had been terminated and were granted until 2 pm to evacuate the building. The sources said that personal property had been sent to their homes by the mail.
The museum’s film coordinator, Bernardo Rondo, was among those who were developed. He was informed while he was at the Cannes Film Festival, and was published on LinkedIn: “As of today, it has become a league as a coordinator, cinematic programs at the Lucas Museum of Sard Art, and immediately effective.
Rondo, who had previously worked as a founding director of filmmakers at the Oscars of the team, did not respond immediately to request a comment from the Times.
A representative of the museum told the Times that the demobilization of the workers had made “because of the necessary shift in the Foundation’s focus to ensure that we opened on time next year.”
“It is a very difficult decision to reorganize roles and eliminate employees, but restructuring will allow the museum teams to work more efficiently to bring the museum to the public,” the museum said in a statement.
Lucas Museum was established by director George Lucas and his wife, Melody HobsonThose who searched for a site in San Francisco and Chicago before Choose the exhibition garden in Los Angeles. A billion dollars museum was stolen next to the Los Angeles County Museum in 2018. The project She witnessed her first great delay In 2022, when the problems of the epidemic chain were forced to open the opening in 2023 to return to 2025. Earlier this year, it was returned again, until 2026.
In February, the museum director and CEO, Sandra Jackson DomontBefore the responsible five years. The museum said that its role was divided into two positions, as Lucas oversees the “direction of content”, chairman of the former Paramount Pictures and CEO Jim Gianopoulos as temporary CEO. Jackson Domont left on April 1.
Jackson Domont publicly did not talk about her departure and did not immediately respond to the requests for comment late Monday.
The sources said that Lucas participated in technical decisions, but he did not seem to be involved in public education and programming that Jackson Domont defended.
Before arriving at Los Angeles, Jackson Dominant worked as head of education and public programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His compatriot in San Francisco also held public education and programming roles at the Harlam Studio Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Arts and the Seattle Museum of Arts, where she worked with Reagan Pro, Deputy Director of General Programs of Lucas and the social impact that was among those who were placed last week, according to the sources. The professional did not respond to a request for comment from the Times.
The museum said in a statement on Tuesday morning. “One of the main reasons that the Los Angeles Park has been chosen by the museum’s website is its proximity to other museums, USC, and more than 400 schools in a five -miles radi circle. We look forward to sharing more opening.”
