| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Proposed closure of Wandsworth Museum | |
| Posted by: | James Dixon | |
| Date/Time: | 02/03/07 23:08:00 |
| Quoting the example of the excellent Hogarth Exhibition at the Tate is entirely appropriate to the case for keeping a Wandsworth Museum. People are going to the Tate in their droves because there are a lot of wonderful pictures all in one place - who would travel miles simply to see, say, just five Hogarths by themselves? The worth of a large exhibition is far greater than the simple sum of all its constituent parts. So the contents of the Wandsworth Museum [those that are going to be retained, that is] are to be dispersed around five libraries? Who is going to go to a library simply to see the small number of items that might be there? If the items relating to John Burns, for example, go to a Battersea Library, who in Putney is going to trek there to see them? How will we know which library they have gone to? How would we know that they actually existed, if we did not know it already? How can we compensate for the potential loss of not seeing other items that might unexpectedly interest us in the course of going to look at items relating to John Burns? This is all sad, very sad, and a blot on the landscape |