The museum reported that it had so far raised $93 million for the project.
Seymour Mace, for example, has been appointed comedian-in-residence at a Northumberland mining museum, reports Chortle.
For the fiscal year that ended June 30 , 2001 the museum reported a surplus of $727,000.
The museum reported a $284,062 deficit for fiscal year 2005-6, the most recent figures available.
But in its last tax filing, from 2007, the museum reported just $115,000 in assets, aside from the land.
The Grand Palais museum reported a 43.9% slump and the Palace of Versailles, outside the city, just short of 20%.
In the fiscal year that ended June 30 , 2000 the museum reported a loss of $1.4 million, after a $456,000 loss the previous year.
The museum has attracted attention in Moscow and beyond, and drawn an increasing number of visitors: 170,000 for the first nine months of 2010, the museum reports.
North Korean tour guides lead visitors through the regime's latest cultural showpiece, a grand new panorama museum reported to have cost $24m.
A recent survey by the American Association of Museums, which Ms. Schwarzer helped conduct, found that not a single art museum reported visitors reacting negatively to new technology in the galleries.
