London’s Theatre Museum -
Something Worth Saving
Set up after a fifty year campaign, London’s Theatre Museum holds one of the world’s finest collections of material on the performing arts. It is administered as a department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, which for reasons of economy wanted to close it as an independent attraction and to relocate it to a few of its own galleries.
London’s Theatre Museum - Something Worth Saving
The Guardians Team
Theatre Museum
Thank you for your interest in our campaign to save the Theatre Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum has exercised its right to give up its lease on the Theatre Museum premises in Russell Street, and will shortly be withdrawing its exhibits and storing them until an unknown date in the future. The Museum’s archive and study collection continues to flourish in Blythe House, Olympia, and is open to the public on a limited basis. This enterprise is now known as ‘The Theatre Collections at the V&A’, and will present the Society of British Theatre Designers’ recent exhibition of four years’ stage design, Collaborators, in the V&A from 21 November 2007.
Meanwhile, the Guardians are associated with an approach to the Russell Street landlords, Messrs Capital and Counties, which would make it possible to continue to have a Theatre Museum in the building. As soon as we have concrete news of the progress of this proposal, we will be informing those who have pledged their support to the idea of an independent Theatre Museum, which was and remains the intention of its founders and the Guardians.
Please do not send any further pledges until we know the outcome of the present negotiations.
The Guardians
London’s Theatre Museum - Something Worth Saving
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