In article <[log in to unmask]>, robert and fiona
forsythe <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Is there anyone reading this able to give a different angle to the
>continual press reporting (which may/may not be spot on) about the
>incredible saga of Glasgow Museums? Apparently some 40 members of staff
>have left this year with two senior management staff in the last ten
>days. Their stories have been strongly reported and what is happening
>this year is only the present state of a saga that has run throughout
>the decade with protagionists like Julian Spalding and Elspeth King.
> ...

I'm a long way from Glasgow, so I know less than you do.

I just thought I'd add, totally irrelevantly, my reaction to one news
item out of Glasgow.
It was reported in the spring that tickets for an art show were changing
hands in Glasgow bars for pints of lager.  While, of course, those
museum staff (I assume it was museum staff, but it could have been the
printers, etc.) who were bartering the tickets for drinkies were, in
effect, stealing from the museum, it struck me that what they were doing
could be interpreted as a kind of outreach!  Whether or not they really
were developing new audiences depends, of course, which bars we are
talking about, and whether those buying the tickets would be going to
the gallery themselves, or selling them on to more traditional visitors.

Best wishes,
--
Pat Reynolds
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Keeper of Social History, Buckinghamshire County Museum
   "It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years time"
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