Jo Quinton-Tulloch says relocation of photographs from National Media Museum was response to 30% slice in fundingThe decision to lag a valuable photography collection from Bradford’s National Media Museum to London was “the upright professional thing to attain”,the director of the museum has insisted during a grilling by a committee of the city’s councillors.
Appearing in front of a Bradford Council scrutiny committee meeting organised to examine plans to relocate around 400000 objects from the Bradford museum to a new “international photography resource centre” at the Victoria and Albert museum in Kensington, Jo Quinton-Tulloch said the museum had been forced to make practical decisions in response to a 30% slice to its government funding.
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Source: theguardian.com