Save Swindon Museum and Art Gallery

A campaign to save Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, home to much loved museum collections & one of the best post-war Modern British Art collections #FreeOurCroc

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Not a birthday to celebrate, but we're going to make the best of it! Friday 17th March marks three years since @SwindonCouncil closed the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. Join us at 1pm outside Apsley House for cake and cards and keep up the pressure to #FreeOurCroc

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@bestytheposty @FrSMAG There will be whatever people choose to bring! :) We'd love you to bring some cake and join us! 🐊🍰

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Friends of Swindon Museum & Art Gallery: Third Anniversary of Closure of Swindon Museum and... https://t.co/VUCcnQX8SI please come and join us to remember this sad occasion @FreeOurCroc

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@FrSMAG @Anjelica1956 @helenbarrett @swindonadver @Adver_Daniel @MuseumandArt The council put some homeopathic temporary displays up, but we are still waiting for a clear timeline for the new facility in the Civic Offices.

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Looking forward to the @FrSMAG AGM this evening, where Cllr Matty Courtliff will be speaking about the current plans for the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. It'll be great to catch up with all the members of the Friends who are planning to be there, too!

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Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday, it was a great turnout! If you missed it:
a) Cllr Courtliff has promised to make the presentation available online very soon
b) feel free to send us your thoughts/feedback and we'll pass them on, or just send them straight to SBC

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Swindon Borough Council are holding an event to explain, and answer questions about, their plans for a new Swindon Museum and Art Gallery in the Civic Offices. Do come along, find out more, and engage constructively.

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@neilrobinson_88 @Anjelica1956 @SaveOasis @alltheeights @mrcjstevens We've got a long way to go, but we've made a start. It was great to see more of the plans last night, but incredibly disappointing to see that so many decisions had already been made about how to tell the story of Swindon without involving the people of Swindon

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@mrsba492 @SwindonCouncil @MuseumandArt @RobertBuckland No, a museum hasn't really been part of the plan for the Cultural Quarter since it moved to Kimmerfields - just the Art Pavillion. Essentially, they've decided that the art is something special, but the museum collections not-so-much, so their final resting place is still TBC!

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Swindon Borough Council are holding an event to explain, and answer questions about, their plans for a new Swindon Museum and Art Gallery in the Civic Offices. Do come along, find out more, and engage constructively.

[Save Swindon Museum and Art Gallery @FreeOurCroc]

If you're a member of the Friends, watch out for the upcoming AGM and please do come along!

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We've been meeting with SBC regularly over the last few months about their plans for the new museum and art gallery. Whilst any announcements are theirs to make, not ours - comms still not a strong point - we thing you all deserve an update!

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Do check out the plans for the Civic Offices that have been published.
We're expecting SBC to announce how they'll share more info publicly soon.

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@PatrickSwindon It also has a schools' space, which Apsley didn't have, and which greatly improves a museum's ability to host school groups.

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@PatrickSwindon Apsley had 475m^2 (we have architects report), whilst the new ones look slightly smaller, possibly ~465m^2 (although some of that is shop/reception space)

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Plans for the alterations to the Civic Offices have now been submitted and are up on the SBC planning portal. This is progress, but we need more community invovlement. Check out the plans, below, and let us (and SBC) know your thoughts. https://t.co/dCi4FYDqgj

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As the building is now listed as a Community Asset, there's a brief window for the building to be saved if a suitable buyer and funds can be found.

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It's heartbreaking and deeply upsetting to see Apsley House placed on a at-risk register. The fate of this key Swindon building has been an issue we've raised from the outset https://t.co/4BuC3jkCPd

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In 2018, SBC insisted to the @HeritageFundUK that they wouldn't sell it, if the museum left the building, but would instead find a community use for it.