Mass Strike of U.K. Cultural Workers Forces British Museum to Close

Strikes among the United Kingdom’s cultural workers forced the unexpected closure of the British Museum in London yesterday.Last week, civil servants working for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) — the government department heading the cultural sector and policy in the U.K.— announced that they would begin striking on February 1 due to poor pay and labor conditions. More than 100 members of the British Museum security and visitor services staff, who be