In an unusual intervention, the United Kingdom Institute for Conservation has sent two sharply worded letters to the museum protesting the planned cuts in both the conservation and science departments.
Targets also include the National Gallery, where striking workers from a range of London museums protested at what they regard as increasing privatisation, and anti-Shell protesters targeted the first day of the gallery's Rembrandt exhibition, which is sponsored by the oil company.
Trump said he had "studied and "admired" Martin Luther King Jr. his entire life, as about 50 protesters gathered outside the museum to protest the president's attendance.
Perhaps the museum doth protest its Colorado-like immensity too much.
Activists and university students also gathered at the Guggenheim to "occupy" the museum and protest against brutal working conditions in Abu Dhabi, where the museum plans to build an expansion.
When he exhibited the designs at the Hirshhorn in 1990, black museum personnel protested.
Workers at that museum are protesting the government's plan to cut more than 400 jobs there over the next 10 years.
Zahi Hawass, who was promoted to become minister of antiquities in a cabinet shake-up as the revolution got underway, was among the first people to make his way to the Egyptian museum as protests broke out in Tahrir Square.
The move by the museum follows protests, among them from the artist's daughter Mary, the film director Danny Boyle, the Tate gallery's director Sir Nicholas Serota, and many other artists and public figures, over a decision by Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets, to sell the sculpture.
On 10 February, dozens of museum workers protested for higher wages outside his office in the Cairo suburb of Zamalek, an unthinkable event in a country where, until January, the government kept a tight lid on criticism.
"A solid majority" of the members of the group, comprised of about 70 curators, scholars and other researchers at the museum, signed the protest memorandum, said Helena Wright, a curator at the museum and vice chairwoman of the congress.
