From the Evening Standard:
Fears that Britain’s flagship museums will be forced to scrap major exhibitions after Brexit can be revealed today.
Famous names including the V&A and the Natural History Museum believe they could be hammered with import taxes, the loss of key staff and huge cuts in vital research funding.
Some think they could be forced to temporarily close their doors in the case of a botched Brexit deal...
Etcetera etcetera.
As older readers will remember, there were no public museums or galleries in the UK prior to the mid-1970s...
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Nobody move or the museums get hurt!
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George Osborne lying again.
I was assured yesterday that, come brexit, any Brits living abroad would have to register as aliens when they came back . . . Yes, the fearmongers are preaching to the braindead.
Regarding import taxes, this doesn't make too much sense. Here in Switzerland we have exhibitions showing art from the EU as well. Usually the galleries / museums import the goods they want to exhibit on a kind of "carnet" and then just export them after the show. Only small administrative fees apply.
L, "again"? When was he ever not lying?
DCB, awesome! Do you have a link to that?
U, ta. Are Swiss public museums still free on Mondays?
"As older readers will remember, there were no public museums or galleries in the UK prior to the mid-1970s..."
Are you sure? I distinctly remember being taken by my dad to the Science Museum in the 60s. I thought it was really cool, there was a coal mine you could go into and the cockpit of a passenger jet. Don't remember much else.
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