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Originally Posted by Gayle
As for visitor numbers - they are extremely poor - Garinda, please trust me on this because I do know that the numbers that go do not always justify the place being open. So, yes, some people may come from out of town, some people may visit regularly, but visitor numbers are not good. Local people do not turn out as often as they should for a 'jewel in the crown'.
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If the gallery is attracting a poor, however that's decided, visitor count, that is down to bad promotion, and as I said earlier, an uninspiring curatorship. It certainly wasn't the case thirty years ago, when it was in more imaginative hands.
In the linked thread you informed us that funded by the council tax payer, H.B.C. employs a team of four salaried 'arts development' officers.
Either the people that gave them the job aren't very good at deciding who to employ, or the four people they employed aren't particularly good.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...s-18809-5.html
Perhaps if we employed fewer people, but someone of a higher caliber, who is more able to promote a very beautiful gallery, which has a collection of world reknown, then the place would be buzzing.
I know you don't have much knowledge of the cut and thrust and reality of the business world, but with the right product, promotion, and price, which in this case is free, people come flocking.