Barnet Council responds to campaign by children against closure of Barnet Museum
4:24pm Tuesday 7th February 2012 in London News
Barnet Council has responded to a campaign by primary school children to prevent the closure of Barnet Museum.
A council spokesman said: “Funding to the Barnet Museum was withdrawn in April last year against the backdrop of unprecedented financial pressures facing local government.
“The council is discussing a range of options with the community group running the museum about their future use of the building with a view to allowing them to continue operating independently at no cost to the taxpayer.”
Year Four students at Goodwyn School, Mill Hill, wrote to Barnet Council after a school trip to the museum to express their distress at the threat of closure.
Barnet Museum is at risk because the council has withdrawn its financial support and is now requesting that the museum meets unaffordable rent payments.
The children, aged eight to nine, visited the museum, in Wood Street, with teacher Russell Bloch on January 24.
Mr Bloch said: “The children loved the museum. The thought of it closing really pulls at the heart strings; it would be such a shame.”
