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[Closed] Save the National Media Museum in Bradford

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I know many of you are into your photography etc so I thought this might be of interest?

Easy peasy petition [url= http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-national-media-museum-bradford ]HERE[/url]


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 5:33 pm
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I think I might start a petition, to have a Dam built at Shipley just south of the Station.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 5:44 pm
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Signed - if ever a city needs continued investment it's Bradford!


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 5:46 pm
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Done and shared on Facebook.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 5:47 pm
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This also affects MOSI Manchester and the Rail Museum in York. All threatened with closure to help keep London based Museums running allegedly.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 5:52 pm
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Though I really hope it doesn't come to it, Manchester and York can afford to lose a museum. Bradford certainly can't. Well worth supporting. Done.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 5:52 pm
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Manchester and York can afford to lose a museum
i wouldn't say that, yes maybe a museum about tubular bandages but not the national railway museum and the museum of science and industry! 2 of the best days out in their respective cities, ditto bradford. not sure if a petition on the internet is the way forward tho


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 6:08 pm
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Manchester and York can afford to lose a museum.

Really. And where did you get that info-nugget from?


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 6:16 pm
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unlikely theyll close, just be volunteer staff, and some redundancies, there is also the case for charging admission fees, but the overheads of charging usually wipe out the charge.

Quite a few museums run with limited staff and lots of volunteers, jsut look at the preserved railways.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 6:34 pm
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Who or what is this Thatcher you speak of.........


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 6:35 pm
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Right. I'm definitely not voting conservative next time.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 7:35 pm
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One has to go and I want MOSI to survive.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 8:00 pm
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Signed - they exhibited one of my pix a few years back so are clearly worth saving.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 8:06 pm
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If I had to choose one of the three to go it would be the Media museum. Its a bit crap in comparison to the others, and I live in Bradford.

A Thatcher museum though would be a travesty.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 8:07 pm
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Read this... then gather your pitch forks.

Perhaps you are accidentally missing the point that the Thatcher museum will be paid for and run with private funds - conservatives being rather less inclined to spaff other people's money around like drunken sailors on shore leave.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 8:49 pm
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Not missing the point at all.

While the country is on its arse somebody, with the blessing of our leader, is prepared to spunk £15,000,000 on a museum to Thatcher, and at the same time these places that inspire and are held in awe by our kids are under threat.


 
Posted : 08/06/2013 9:27 pm
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Presumably if these places were actually worth saving they'd be financially viable from ticket sales?


 
Posted : 10/06/2013 9:33 am