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Originally Posted by garinda

It makes sense to me that any museum should ideally be housed with an existing art gallery.

There are already staff there, as well as it being a secure place to house exhibits, and is already insured.

Plus the benefits of having parking, and other facilities like a cafe.

I know Cllr. Wendy Dwyer is very keen that the Haworth is more well used, than it is at present.

I'm sure if there was a museum there it would only add to it's appeal.

All well and good Gari, but the exibits in museums soon take up lot of space, then there is a problem of storage facilities. The Haworth has limited space & the storage facility is already taken up, with paintings, and other thing not on show.
Perhaps things could be condensed in the local authority, years ago it was just the town hall, now they have Scaitcliffe, (Bulloughs old drawing office),
and part of the Globe center, & the upper part of the block on the right of Broadway, and probably other places as well, there would be ample room in any of those. What about making use of the Arcade in a similar way to York.
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