Brighton Centre In Historic Battle
Posted on | January 14, 2010 | No Comments
Brighton Short Breaks has long been a fan of Brighton and Hove Museums and any visitors to Brighton are highly encouraged to go along and spend a wet afternoon inside exploring their treasures and getting a fascinating insight into the history and background of our glorious city!
Sadly, the future of the Brighton History centre is in discussion at the moment as a result of the financial pressures Brighton and Hove Council are under – and as a result the staff may be made redundant and the centre be rehoused inside the Jubilee Library. I think we’d all agree that this kind of resource is invaluable – and to lose it would be to lose it forever – BUT all the artifacts and exhibits are not in danger and happily their future as a source of inspiration and fascination for successive generations is safe.
However, what does seems to be in jeopardy is the wisdom, experience and local knowledge of the History Centre staff themselves. There has been a movement -quickly gathering pace – to acknowledge and safeguard the staff themselves, as its feared that with their redundancy a great deal of local knowledge and understanding gathered over many years working and collecting the exhibits would be lost too. The exhibits would be grandly displayed in the Jubilee Library but, sadly, there would be no room for the curators and museum workers themselves.
Such is the strength of feeling on this that a petition has been established on the Councils website strongly defending the current set up, and citing the city’s strong dependency on its history and cultural tradition as a major tourist attraction and financial draw, as reason not to inflict any potential damage to the revenue draw!
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