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Edited Feb 04, 2017, 15:27
Re: Do museums have a future?
Feb 04, 2017, 15:25
I must admit these days am much more reluctant to travel up to London for a museum/gallery trip finding the Underground and the large numbers of people rushing around stressful.

Although believe in living in the present and not referencing the near past too much, the second half of the 20th Century now seems to have had a lot going for it - until the Thatcher years that is, when everything gradually started to unravel.
My feeling is that the small, specialised museums such as the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes (which does charge an entry fee) will survive. In the context of the Guardian article someone from the Richard Jefferies Museum, which is local to me, commented that they are thriving. I admit I haven't been for some time but I think they now focus on nature activities for children in their quite spacious garden (it was the house where RJ grew up). Most museums are now getting children involved with hands on stuff such as dressing up - perhaps this would not be as viable in the big city museums for all sorts of reasons, not least security.
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