Volunteering kept me going but now austerity has killed my museum

I fought to keep my local museum open for the staff, volunteers, community, and children – but my voice was ignored

Austerity has killed my museum. I was a volunteer for two and a half years, but now the doors of the local museum are closed, all the staff made redundant, the collection rationalised, and the Grade II-listed medieval building that housed it will be put up for sale. A display case in the central library is the token replacement.

Where is this cultural act of vandalism? Not in the hard-hit north or a cash-strapped central London borough – but leafy Bromley in south-east London.

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from Voluntary Sector Network | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1q7gEiz