London Museum's Group
Attending a meeting of the London Museum's Group, of which I am a committee member. I was rather struck by the fact that ALM, London gets £155, 000 for 2 years to spend on its museum strategy while the London Hub gets £5.8m!
Ofcourse it isn't quite as simple as that (as some of the £5.8m goes towards the wider Museum community) but it enabled me to have a go at the whole stupid 'Renaissance in the Region' system which allows such inequalities to exist.
Ben Travers of ALM, London presented his plans for spending the £155.000. which seemed very sensible, but I asked him what could he do if he had £5.8m! This sum of money would allow his strategy to be properly rolled out but as it is he has far too little money to make much of an impact.
Ofcourse it isn't quite as simple as that (as some of the £5.8m goes towards the wider Museum community) but it enabled me to have a go at the whole stupid 'Renaissance in the Region' system which allows such inequalities to exist.
Ben Travers of ALM, London presented his plans for spending the £155.000. which seemed very sensible, but I asked him what could he do if he had £5.8m! This sum of money would allow his strategy to be properly rolled out but as it is he has far too little money to make much of an impact.
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