How many people must work in the gallery?
 

There is a view that the optimum number of employees of the gallery - it was one man, its owner. What do you think? How many people must work in the gallery and what functions they must perform to the life of the gallery was interesting, visible and meaningful?

A caretaker, cleaner, errand boy? And the accountant? A Director?
For 6 (six!)

Everything depends on intelligence personnel. Better sane employee than six useless monkeys.

For virtual galleries - one is enough if a gallery owner also may be a bit of programming. For the gallery, which does not work on routine and receives visitors only after a phone call at an inconvenient time for visitors - is also one enough. "

But for normal businesses require a minimum of three people:

1) The owner-director-expert. He's an entrepreneur, which avoids the professional accountant. He's the driver-forwarder, courier and caretaker.
2) Two men, who sit in the hall. They also suggest the order, unload and make out the picture, respond to letters and phone calls ....

Do not agree that the owner was the driver, courier and assistant warden. After three days of such work, the poor director expert, delivered the invitation, and shall be parallel to the work, as well as buying toilet paper and stationery will be in the best case in cardiology.
The driver should be. Assistant warden may work and secretary-seller.
poor things, sitting in the hall, grinding senseless nonsense on the phone with one hand correspond to the letters spelling (in the best case!) Mistakes and one unloading-foot canvases of contemporary artists, while the third hand, dressing the paintings in his own made the fourth leg, the frame!

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I also want to add ...
One - is safety. Owner - No employee, he should not work in the gallery. He pays his salary, invested in the purchase and decoration works, organizing exhibitions, pay utilities, household expenses, the purchase /lease of premises. The owner decides on the highest level, thanks to his connections. And people who receive a salary, must correctly and without errors implement plans /ideas gallery owner and accomplish their tasks.
Now the number. Driver - again, the photographer - two cleaner - three (sometimes cleaner can work and staff) who comes to the programmer - four people who are physically and mentally will pull the site work the gallery, answering calls and letters, organizing exhibitions, work in Photoshop or other such a program, advertising and other domestic issues, including the purchase of coffee and sugar - five. Director who is behind all these monitors and makes part of the fifth person - six. Fifths should be two - the replacement of illness or force majeure.
A general problem is one - is a professional staff. Often, the gallery artists come to work, thinking that this is just a specialty. But now traders need to be clever, with an iron grip, dealt with in this painting in no worse a graduate hudgrafa. And in our time who will teach these two professions at once? We have two problems: it is expensive and skilled personnel.

Vivien, I have witnessed - in Germany, a museum graphics and his site (though small, established on the basis of a private collection, donated) operates the efforts of one man. Sometimes, when changing the display or exhibition invites apprentice. This same man still manages to hold exhibitions in the neighboring towns. So many options. Depending on the circumstances.

I was told this story. This is a girl? There are volumes of work that a sensible person can do, there are others who the same physically unable to realize. Museum ... And in the museum sell?
So, back to my first post in this topic ?:) Better sane employee than six ...<!--~ a ~-->< ! - ~ 1 ~-->:)

I draw your attention to the fact that in my phrase was inscribed the word "minimum". If we look at the gallery like the Tretyakov Gallery, then your list will not do.

Personally, I've seen these galleries, which, and wrote. More precisely, their cost to call salons. For example, in the building of the Central Children's Library M. October at the beginning of Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow) is a salon-a glass. I did not buy anything there, as it failed to find common language with the ever-absent mistress. But the selection of the paintings there was quite bad, for a level area. Some artists that they sell, I knew in reality, or in other galleries.

As always, the whole point of this dispute on the divided terms.

1) What is a gallery in your understanding?
2) What activities should it undertake and what goals to pursue?
3) At what stage of development gallery is located?
4) For whose money works gallery (or their sponsor)?
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So let this be clear about the author himself topics. I am referring to the gallery, organizing exhibitions every month in one or two cities, engaged in the sale of paintings in the collection of information, layout and printing catalogs, operating on the money the owner /owners, not at the initial stage of development.

No. This museum in the town of Bad Steben. You can type in Google.
Here's sponsors had a hundred people. This is a small town! And with all the work to cope alone. The artist and designer. Specifically, the Museum does not sell - a collection, but the exhibition, including commercial, organizes. Itself has been shaken, as it can all keep up, with a quiet rhythm and a relaxed state. But it is possible, fact.