The culture vultures are at it again, this time about whether a national art gallery should be housed at the National Museum in Cathays Park, Cardiff. Well yes I am sure we need at some point to have a National Art Gallery (but given the number of excellent art works already there why can't we just call it that and have done with it) but we also need lots of other things too, like a good childcare, better facilities for cycling and walking, better education for children etc etc. And even within the culture brief, is it really right that yet more investment goes into high art in Cardiff? What about other aspects of Wales' culture - its political heritage, its music - and other parts of Wales?And as for moving artifacts currently in the museum to St Fagans, most of those that were moved from the old Industrial and Maritime Museum to Swansea's Waterfront museum - like the beam engine pictured - have never been seen again. 'Resting in a warehouse' I've been told.
Let's hope this one withers on the vine.
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glad someone picked this up.
May be first question is what are they trying to achieve. Whose benefit is it for?
I just fell that things are being done piecemeal. Surely we have buildings ,great buildings where collections can be housed,and not just in Cardiff - why not an Arts trail
The National Museum should be that a taste of all over very best
this is the crachach trying to make Cardiff too much like London, we only have a small population in Wales compared to England and can't sustain a London type Gallery circuit, there just isn't the interest, finance or the numbers.
There's too much art in Wales stored away from the public, or allocated to 'private' public buildings. The sooner Wales has what other capital cities offer the better.
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