{"id":2258618,"date":"2026-01-30T20:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258618"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:10:22","slug":"seattle-art-museum-closes-due-to-staff-shortages-amid-nationwide-strike-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/seattle-art-museum-closes-due-to-staff-shortages-amid-nationwide-strike-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Art Museum closes due to \u2018staff shortages\u2019 amid nationwide strike | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Art Museum and the Seattle Asian Art Museum are closed Friday <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/seattleartmuseum\/?hl=en\">due to &#8220;higher than anticipated staff shortages,&#8221; the museum said on its Instagram page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The museum said its facilities had planned to be open and &#8220;free to the public today as a space for community gathering,&#8221; but the staff shortages made it unable to safely open its locations.<\/p>\n<p>The closure comes amid a &#8220;National Shutdown&#8221; in protest of the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Dozens of Seattle-area <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/national-shutdown-seattle-area-businesses-close-fundraise\/\">shops and restaurants shuttered their doors or are donating proceeds Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Art Museum and the Seattle Asian Art Museum are closed Friday due to &#8220;higher than anticipated staff shortages,&#8221; the museum said on its Instagram page. The museum said its facilities had planned to be open and &#8220;free to the public today as a space for community gathering,&#8221; but the staff shortages made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-2258618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seattle-Art-Museum-closes-due-to-\u2018staff-shortages-amid-nationwide.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258620,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258618\/revisions\/2258620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}