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Petition to save folk gallery at Manx Museum needs 5,000 signatures

Tue, 08 Oct 2019

Credit: Visit IOM
Credit: Visit IOM

A local woman has launched a petition calling for 5,000 signatures to save a folklife display at the Manx Museum in Douglas.

Lynn Mather, who was a civil servant working in the museum in the 70s, began her petition via Change.org – so far there are over 2,750 signatures.

She says she wants Manx National Heritage not to go ahead with transforming the folklife gallery into a new TT exhibition, which would be installed by 2022:

Manx National Heritage’s Director Edmund Southworth says that the plans for the new exhibition means that the gallery’s set build will be updated for a more modern and up-to-date feature area:

 


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