The Science Museum Group’s trustees hold thought hard about securing a bright future for the museum – and moving fraction of its photography collection simply makes senseThe planned sprint of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) collection to the Victoria and Albert Museum has generated much heated comment and soul-searching about the north-south divide. Yet the novelist JB Priestley,of whom there is a striking statue external the National Media Museum, remarked that he had “always been delighted at the prospect of a novel day, and a fresh try,one more start” and that is precisely what is now dawning at the museum.
The tale of loss, even of cultural vandalism, and being put about by some is simply wrong. The Science Museum Groups trustees hold thought hard about the future of the National Media Museum,and the genuine story is of a museum rooted in its community with vibrant plans and a photographic collection that will still include three million images: a story of confidence and ambition.
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Source: theguardian.com