Pros
The Good There are incredibly interesting people working for the museum, and the collection of course is second to none. If you are a keen networker like I am you will have the chance to interact and become friendly with all sorts of colleagues, be they from the upper classes, mostly helicoptered into the institution by the infamous old boys' network, or the migrant workers cleaning and guarding the place on zero hour contracts. Whatever their background, those staff members are truly passionate about the place, always trying to find ways to improve processes and achieve positive outcomes.
Cons
The Bad Quite a few of the people working at the museum are institutionalised to an incredible degree. Especially when it comes to support services like Marketing and Design they delight in being a great hindrance to anyone who tries to improve and modernise processes. To give an example – when the branding of the museum was renewed in 2012, the (outsourced) creative lead, engaged mostly for the fact that he was friends with one of the deputy directors, omitted providing guidelines for screen and digital design. This was essentially because he had been taken out of retirement, and famously 'didn't do computers'. The Ugly Frustration levels across the museum have gone up tremendously over the last couple of years. Staff are being laid off, in many cases without redundancy provisions, even though they have sufficient continuity of service. There is a huge discrepancy between official HR policies (which include annual top-down assessments, etc) and the reality, which caters to those that are inside the established segment (who literally have jobs 'made' for them) and the rest who have to dance for scraps in form of rolling three-month FTC extensions before eventually being shown the door. Emanating from the top, a disdainful bully culture is being promulgated and projected throughout the institution.