Booth Museum gets a reprieve
Gary Noakes, 18.01.2010
Council rejects proposal to cut opening hours
Brighton & Hove City Council had wanted to close the Booth Museum of Natural History on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but the council’s cabinet yesterday rejected the proposal, voting instead to keep it open on five full days plus Sunday afternoon.
The Booth’s ecology, insect, fossil and mineral galleries house half a million specimens, including some of the earliest known dinosaur bones.
A plan to move Brighton History Centre, a public archive in the main Museum & Art Gallery into the city’s Jubilee Library was also rejected following an online petition of 1,100 signatures.
Together the measures would have saved £100,000, but a council spokesman said: “We have decided to slash our advertising instead.”
The Booth’s ecology, insect, fossil and mineral galleries house half a million specimens, including some of the earliest known dinosaur bones.
A plan to move Brighton History Centre, a public archive in the main Museum & Art Gallery into the city’s Jubilee Library was also rejected following an online petition of 1,100 signatures.
Together the measures would have saved £100,000, but a council spokesman said: “We have decided to slash our advertising instead.”
