Help save Roman Museum in Canterbury from closing

[Caballo]

The Roman Museum in Canterbury is threatened with closure unless we do something. Signing the petition would help to save it.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Museums1/ ... sign.html? .




The museum includes:
-time-view of early Roman town
-market with trader's stalls and set out with real objects and authentic reconstructions
-House Interior with room settings including kitchen and dining room
-the household's shrine with the family's gods
-the finds gallery with objects from daily life including precious silver, amazing glass and costly imports
-the time tunnel showing the end of the Roman town
-the rediscovery of the Roman town by early archaeologists
-the discovery after the wartime bombing of the Roman house and mosaics
-the excavated Roman house site with the hypocaust room and finely patterned mosaics
-computer show with on-screen reconstruction tour
-interactive computer game
-touch the past hands-on area

[Sextus Aurelius Propertiu]

Petition signed..!

Best regards to all

Sextus Aurelius Propertius

Eric-Alexandre POHER

[taira1180]

Done!

[Jona Lendering]

I did sign because I trust Paul. Yet, under normal circumstances, I would like to hear two sides of a story; perhaps Paul can offer an account of the arguments for and against closing?

[Caballo]

Sadly, purely money based, it seems. The local authority are looking to save £49k as their budget is under pressure.
Regards

Paul

[Jona Lendering]

Sadly, purely money based, it seems. The local authority are looking to save £49k as their budget is under pressure

I suspected as much...

[sulla felix]

This is an excellent little museum that I have visited on many occasions. To close it for the sake of a comparatively small amount of 49K is apalling.

Petition signed.

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

Signed.

M.VIB.M.

[jvrjenivs]

Also signed. It's a pity that those nice little museum fail to survive the economical crisis.

[Jona Lendering]

It's a pity that those nice little museum fail to survive the economical crisis.

Although, to be fair, we should admit that there are too many museums. Here in Holland, we have the Thermenmuseum in Heerlen, which attracts no visitors whatsoever; if all the people who signed the petition several years ago actually visited it, we would have no problem. The Roman department in Maastricht and the Frisian department in Groningen have been closed many years ago, without anyone even noticing it. At least here in Holland, we simply have a couple of museums too many; there may be similar, reasonable motifs for closing British museums.

[John Conyard]

Currently in the UK public finances are under great strain. My chums down in Canterbury at the University of Kent are trying to co-ordinate a response to this proposed closure, and Paul is doing a great job of advertising the petition. Two other museums are also under threat in the city.

[ParthianBow]

Signed.

[NightHunter24]

Ave fratres,

Just put in mine for the cause
I hope they succeed in saving it!

[Robert Vermaat]

The Roman department in Maastricht been closed many years ago, without anyone even noticing it.

You mean the Bonnefanten? I noticed!! It does not matter so much that these museums close, but that their artefacts suddenly are no longer availbale to the public. They should have been turned over to other museums!

Signed the petition. What's the closest Roman museum to Kent if Canterbury closes? London?

[Jona Lendering]

It does not matter so much that these museums close, but that their artefacts suddenly are no longer availbale to the public. They should have been turned over to other museums!

I think Tongeren is a nice place. It already has an excellent museum, and those Limburgers always claim that the border is not theirs, merely an invention from governments; so let's see if they live up to that ideal.

Right now, the collection of Maastricht is in the Limburgs Museum (but not on display). Several photos can be found here: [url:288wlqfk]http://83.136.195.36/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FCCMarcheo[/url]. And that is all there is for a city that attracts tourists with the slogan that "Maastricht staat op zijn Romeins verleden". It's a bloody shame.