CLEVELAND—The Cleveland Museum of Art has been forced to eliminate staff in an effort to balance its budget for the coming years as it undergoes a massive addition that will more than double its size.

Fourteen positions were lost in the museum's IT, finance, and administrative departments. The directors decided to cut from these departments to keep intact what outgoing Director Timothy Rub calls the “heart of the museum’s operations” — the public programming, curatorial, and art conservation branches. The layoffs were made necessary by a dip in this year’s endowment, which is down from $821 million in 2007 to about $510 million today. Rub is leaving the Cleveland museum for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, though his departure is due to artistic differences and not the budget troubles.

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