National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims

Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees

The National Gallery's security staff, of whom the vast majority are from minority ethnic backgrounds, are facing shocking segregation, a senior curator has claimed.

Its outsourced guards are barred from the building's high-quality hub" - bright and airy recreation rooms that are available to the institution's mainly white employees. They are not allowed to take their breaks there, or even sit in that area.