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ePetition details

Stop the cuts to Shropshire's Museum Resource Centre

We the undersigned petition the council to stop the proposed 80% cut to staffing at Shropshire's Museum Resource Centre. We believe the result of the planned cuts will be hugely detrimental to the access and maintenance of this vital historical, heritage, archaeological, educational and cultural resource - reducing access from 5 days a week to between 1-3 days. We urge Shropshire Council to reverse their decision.

The Museum Resource Centre at Ludlow supports the whole museums service across Shropshire and makes its specialist facilities available to museums across the West Midlands. It is open by appointment to the general public and is used by education groups, students of all ages, researchers and enquirers from across the UK and overseas.

Volunteers work on the collections throughout the year, co-ordinated and supervised by professional staff who are qualified in the natural sciences. From mammoth bones to social history, from an internationally renowned fossil collection to natural history, this centre is a hugely important resource for Shropshire, the West Midlands and beyond and needs to be maintained as such.

This ePetition ran from 21/01/2015 to 12/03/2015 and has now finished.

443 people signed this ePetition.

Council response


In view of the combined paper petition and e petition meeting the 1000+ signature threshold the matter was debated at Council on 26th February 2015. More details of the discussion and outcome can be viewed in the Minutes of the meeting.

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