Herefordshire Council Cabinet are due to meet to make decisions the future of Museums, Libraries and Archives on 28th June 2018. However, we believe these issues deserve further consideration than has happened so far, so we are asking for discussion at a Full Council. For the Museum Service we support the “Resilient Heritage” roadmap, see: https://www.herefordshire.gov.
Using this “roadmap” the County Collections – thousands of priceless heritage objects – would remain in the care of the Council, on behalf of Herefordshire’s people. The difference is that a local non-profit Trust would work within a local partnership model to develop staffing, exhibitions, learning and tourism, and also buildings investment. (This is very different from outsourcing or privatising to a profit-making private contractor.) This solution offers an alternative to the market ‘procurement’ model that’s also currently being considered by the Council.
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