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This topic should be merged onto end of the following topic which recently discussed the impending move (which I'm in favour of)

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I bet most of those artists have never even been to the bradford museum. Historically the RPS collection was kept in the South and should stay that way unless of course the north is now trying to claim southern heritage as its own, I wouldn't put it passed them. I didn't hear them whining when it was moved from the South to the North. So this is the usual northern bigotry/hypocracy having stolen the Souths collection and whining about giving it back.
 
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Who's calling who a bigot. Somebody needs to calm down! And I thought the Red v White Rose rivalry was bad.

And with that kind of sentiment, I ask you: how much of the stuff in the British Museum is British? :laugh:
 
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BrianShaw said:
Who's calling who a bigot. Somebody needs to calm down! And I thought the Red v White Rose rivalry was bad.

And with that kind of sentiment, I ask you: how much of the stuff in the British Museum is British? :laugh:
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Lets get this straight. I'm calling the Northerners BIGOTS who are claiming the South is stealing their cultural heritage by moving the RPS collection to the South. If you have a problem with that you can stick it where the sun don't shine.
The collection was a southern collection and resided with the RPS in the South since the RPS started. So those theiving Northerners have no claim to it anyway and its only been up there since 2003. By tradition and heritage it is a Southern collection and I personally want it back and to not have it squirrelled away in some dusty archive in a grotty town nobody wants to visit so the collection will be seen by a tiny number of people and mostly only by academics with special accesss priviledges.
 
BrianShaw said:
Who's calling who a bigot. Somebody needs to calm down! And I thought the Red v White Rose rivalry was bad.

And with that kind of sentiment, I ask you: how much of the stuff in the British Museum is British? :laugh:
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LOL And since when hasn't the US been buying its History. :laugh:
 
I was not consulted regarding these changes.
 
Your funny, Rob. A real piece of work, as some might say.

For whatever it's worth, I've been to Bradford. It's not a bad city. A lot less scary to me than some parts of London. And the people were rather nice too.

For clarity though... Where exactly does the sun not shine?
 
BrianShaw said:
Your funny, Rob. A real piece of work, as some might say.

For whatever it's worth, I've been to Bradford. It's not a bad city. A lot less scary to me than some parts of London. And the people were rather nice too.

For clarity though... Where exactly does the sun not shine?
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You should read what the locals had to say about cutural rape before you start making conclusions.
The place isn't working and they are trying to re-invent themselves as a science museum and as usual blaming the south for the fact they can't get people to go there. If they want people to go and view art they had better start educating the local popeople to be interested in art and not just stick up a big museum with naf exhibits and expect it to happen. If the people aren't interested it won't happen. They've had 12 years and it seems like they've failed. If they hadn't failed they might have an argument but the RPS collection is NOT part of their cultural heritage and if no one is seeing it whats the point in having it located there when it will be viewed by far more people at the V&A.
 
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RobC said:
This topic should be merged onto end of the following topic which recently discussed the impending move (which I'm in favour of)

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

I bet most of those artists have never even been to the bradford museum. Historically the RPS collection was kept in the South and should stay that way unless of course the north is now trying to claim southern heritage as its own, I wouldn't put it passed them. I didn't hear them whining when it was moved from the South to the North. So this is the usual northern bigotry/hypocracy having stolen the Souths collection and whining about giving it back.
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Bradford IS in the south ! :smile:

Ronnie
 
ronnies said:
Bradford IS in the south ! :smile:

Ronnie
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All things are relative. I went to an interview for a job in York years ago, when I was living in Southern England, and the idiot that interviewed me couldn't help himself but ask me how I felt about working in the "North". My answer was "These things are all relative." He became very annoyed and demanded to know what I meant by that. I explained that I was born in Northumberland which was the best put down I ever gave to an interviewer who was being a complete horses arse. The South starts at Yorkshire and gets progressively better the further South you go :D
 
"By tradition and heritage it is a Southern collection and I personally want it back and to not have it squirrelled away in some dusty archive in a grotty town nobody wants to visit so the collection will be seen by a tiny number of people and mostly only by academics with special accesss priviledges."

I just read apparently the Bradford Museum is the sixth most visited museum on G.B.
although this is a bit confusing
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/oct/01/museum-gallery-visitor-figures-england-data Leeds has the oldest photographic society in the world
Scotland made some nice pictures
 
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cowanw said:
"By tradition and heritage it is a Southern collection and I personally want it back and to not have it squirrelled away in some dusty archive in a grotty town nobody wants to visit so the collection will be seen by a tiny number of people and mostly only by academics with special accesss priviledges."

I just read apparently the Bradford Museum is the sixth most visited museum on G.B.
although this is a bit confusing
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/oct/01/museum-gallery-visitor-figures-england-data Leeds has the oldest photographic society in the world
Scotland made some nice pictures
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LOL, it says:
The page you're looking for is no longer available
The information on this page has been removed because it was published in error.
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well I just counted them for the last complete year (2014/2015) and its 21st not 6th of all those in the spread sheet.

it had 0.415M whereas the V&A had 3.263M which 8 times as many visitors.

But I guess the stats are not related to town/city population so are fairly meaningless. But why is one of the most important photography collections in the world housed in a museum categorised as being a science museum. doesn't make sense to me.
 
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no not that one, the latest one.
 
OK, its a couple of years old. Your right.
 
LOL?
The article linked to is from 2012 and the data linked to in that article goes up for that mseum untill August 2012.
 
Yes, I know it. But I can't decompress that spreadsheet to being readable.
Thus I have no way to see and interprete the data. I leave it to others to do so.
 
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