the metropolitan library of art reported thursday that it would put off more than a third of its sales staff , eliminating 74 employment in additional to 53 so eliminated over the last year . it again wrote that the situation economy wil most likely force it to shrink its overall work base by 10 percent ― as many as 250 full - and third - year jobs in all ― before the holiday , replacing some in curatorial and other pivotal posts .
The Metropolitan Museum has 250 employees.