Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi

[e2wufos1]

I found this post on the Glasgow Guide forum so hope it's ok to post it here

In what is believed to be an unprecedented move, charges are to be introduced for entrance to a forthcoming exhibition at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum according to the BBC. News of an exhibition celebrating the television series Doctor Who was released last Friday and featured in many UK newspapers. Although no UK newspaper mentioned the possibility of fees being charged for the first time to enter an exhibition at the Kelvingrove Museum, the BBC News website contained the following:

A fee will be levied, but has not yet been set by Culture and Sport Glasgow.

A fee will be levied, but has not yet been set by Culture and Sport Glasgow.

Culture and Sport Glasgow is the company which was controversially established in April last year to manage Glasgow's museums for the city of Glasgow.

Charging entrance fees within museums in Glasgow is likely to be highly controversial in a city where many people see it as their right to enter their museums to view exhibits, without having to pay. Any plans which have previously mooted such proposals have been widely denounced by the people of Glasgow, who view fees as a form of social exclusion from their cultural and artistic heritage.

If Culture and Sport Glasgow follows a similar fee structure to Earl's Court in London, where the exhibition is currently running, entrance fees for an adult could be up to £9.00, with fees for children £7.00, with the combined price for a family of five visiting: £39.00!

BBC news story here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7330203.stm

[red_kola]

Dead Sea Scrolls. It's hardly 'unprecedented'. Lazy journalists...

However, the size of the exhibition space there using doesn't merit the levying of any charge. The RBS Gallery is tiny. I can't see how they can pack in enough stuff to make it worth a couple of quid let alone more...

[Sharon]

Thought they charged for the dead sea scrolls? not that i went...

//edit, seems they did!

[crusty_bint]

Is this the same Dr Who exhibition that was in Paisly last year?

[red_kola]

I really really hope not

[Dexter St. Clair]

email your councillor. They all have blackberries which they can't live without.

Who's my Councillor


Dear Councillor

I note the BBC News website contained the following in a press release of an exhibition celebrating the television series Doctor Who at Kelvingrove.

A fee will be levied, but has not yet been set by Culture and Sport Glasgow.

Is this True?

Here's the original reference

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7330203.stm

Yours

Igo Apewhenihearthewordscultureandsport

[BTJustice]

Is this the same Dr Who exhibition that was in Paisly last year?

Wasnt Dr Who supposed to appear at that in person? I heard he turned up but as he stepped out the tardis some neds jumped him for his prescrition book

[Josef]

No, his Tardis wasn't able to go far enough back in time to reach Paisley.

[onyirtodd]

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Charging entrance fees within museums in Glasgow is likely to be highly controversial in a city where many people see it as their right to enter their museums to view exhibits, without having to pay.

The whole world sees free access to Kelvingrove as their right. It even gets visitors from Paisley.

Any plans which have previously mooted such proposals have been widely denounced by the people of Glasgow, who view fees as a form of social exclusion from their cultural and artistic heritage.

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"cultural and artistic heritage"? A Dr Who exhibition? I don't think so.

[Dexter St. Clair]

You still believe in a divide between High and Low Culture, between Dylan and Byron. How moranic.

And have you e mailed your councillor?

[samscafeamericain]

So the coonsul created a company to run their sport and leisure. This company will now no doubt not be VAT exempt resulting in 17.5% of the budget immediately surrendered back to London. With regard to the Dr Who exhibition, if it intends levying a fee from one public body to another for access of the very people who have paid for the exhibition from their license fees, the City should charge a rent for the space they will take up in the gallery - that rent should equate to the anticipated income.

[AlanM]

Is this the same Dr Who exhibition that was in Paisly last year?

The Paisley exhibition was fan based this is going to be an official one

[onyirtodd]

Thought they charged for the dead sea scrolls? not that i went...

//edit, seems they did!

I found this in a box.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Bumped into Steven Purcell on George Square.They're charging.

[onyirtodd]

Bumped into Steven Purcell on George Square.They're charging.

We must just have missed each other. My driver came within a baw hair of doing Glasgow a favour outside Greggs (Geo Sq/ Queen St) a little after 12.30 today, Weds.