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posted by [identity profile] alextiefling.livejournal.com at 11:43pm on 10/02/2010
Those museums in Canterbury - especially Westgate - have a long history of neglect and under-selling. I've never seen Westgate open, so I've never been inside it and don't know if the inside of the building itself is worth seeing. But if I was the head of the museums service and was looking for a site to shut, I'd be very tempted - it's not very big, and I'm sure the better artefacts could be displayed to better advantage in one of the service's several museums which aren't proposed for closure at all.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:56pm on 10/02/2010
It's open Saturdays, with lovely views over the city, I hear. I'm not likely to be back there on a Saturday anytime soon.
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posted by [identity profile] drasecretcampus.livejournal.com at 12:54am on 11/02/2010
Which other museums? The Beany is closed for a major refit, and I think the sites in Whitstable and Herne Bay are rumoured to be closed (although HB is scheduled for some kind of rebranding and rebuilding). That leaves the Canterbury Museum, which seemed reasonable full and coherent - Anglo-Saxons to Bagpuss. Which museum have I missed?

I'm not clear who runs the pilgrim's house or Greyfriars - I don't think they're council.

As the sole surviving city gate, it would be a shame to see it reduced to something that scrapes paint off buses. And it looks like Westgate Hall is to close and be demolished, losing another performance space (such space and a library having been earmarked for Whitefriars but singularly invisible. The library is squatting in the former Degas centre, a former outpost of CCCCCCCCU.
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