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Originally Posted by Retlaw
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.
Retlaw.
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Nothing really to do with me, and therefore shouldn't really be sticking my beak in, however, since presumably funding will be nonexistent, and it will need staffing, it makes more sense to me that any museum be housed in an already existing place, already open to the public, and showing exhibits.
Purely as a punter, I'd much rather see museum exhibits at the Haworth, which relate to the town, rather some crud, such as an exhibition of work by some amateur painting group from God knows where, from outside of the borough.
Again, from a visitor's point of view, the curatorship at the Haworth has been in unimaginative, not very dynamic, and frankly uninspiring hands, ever since Norman Potter retired, over twenty years ago.
Perhaps some small space could be found to house a museum, if some of the unshown paintings and drawings are stored elsewhere in council owned property?
It is a crying shame that a town like Accrington doesn't have a museum to record it's proud history.
Even sadder that there once was one.
Much of whose world renowned Rimington mineral collection was dumped on a tip in Baxenden.
Which sort of sums up the situation.