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Derby's museums "face a perilous financial position which could mean wide-reaching redundancies and the imminent threat of the sale of collections or closure". The city is named in a letter that has been sent to the Government asking it to release £20 million emergency funding to help save the "most at-risk museums".
Tony Butler, director of Derby Museums Trust, has signed the open letter from the English Civic Museums Network along with other museum organisations, which is calling for the Chancellor to make funding available in her autumn budget to rectify some of the damage "inflicted by austerity" and exacerbated by the pandemic and cost of living crisis.
Derby Museums is an independent charitable trust operating three museums: the Museum and Art Gallery, the Museum of Making and Pickford’s House. It cares for the collections of cultural heritage on behalf of Derby City Council for the people of Derby.
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