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Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:38 pmby 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
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:42 pmby 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...
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:43 pmby Sharon
Thought they charged for the dead sea scrolls? not that i went...
//edit, seems they did!
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:58 pmby crusty_bint
Is this the same Dr Who exhibition that was in Paisly last year?
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:58 pmby red_kola
I really really hope not
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:16 pmby Dexter St. Clair
email your councillor. They all have blackberries which they can't live without.
Who's my CouncillorDear 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.stmYours
Igo Apewhenihearthewordscultureandsport
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:09 pmby BTJustice
crusty_bint wrote: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
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:46 pmby Josef
No, his Tardis wasn't able to go far enough back in time to reach Paisley.
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:44 amby onyirtodd
e2wufos1 wrote: ............................................
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.
e2wufos1 wrote: 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.
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:08 pmby 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?
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:02 pmby 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.
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:14 pmby AlanM
crusty_bint wrote: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
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:02 amby onyirtodd
Sharon wrote:Thought they charged for the dead sea scrolls? not that i went...
//edit, seems they did!
I found this in a box.
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:21 pmby Dexter St. Clair
Bumped into Steven Purcell on George Square.They're charging.
Re: Kelvingrove Museum To Charge Visitor Fee, BBC Reveals exhibi
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Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:32 pmby onyirtodd
Dexter St. Clair wrote: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.