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Petition against the move claims that management want to \u2018orientate the museum to income generation\u2019<\/h3>\n
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The library and archives at the Wallace Collection<\/a> in London are under threat of closure as part of cost-cutting measures being considered by senior management at the museum. The plans, currently under consultation until 11 February, could mean two full-time members of staff are made redundant.<\/p>\n

A group described as \u201carchive professionals and trade unionists\u201d have\u00a0launched a petition\u00a0calling for the library to be saved, which has been signed by more than 10,000 people. It says that the Wallace Collection director, Xavier Bray, \u201cwants to orientate the museum to income generation, and does not view the library and archive as part of this. Management have suggested digitisation will be a work-around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The petition says queries have been raised with senior management such as: \u201cWhat about the Collection’s status as a national museum, as a place of deposit for our institutional archives under the Public Records Act 1958?\u201d It also raises the issue of archives provided by donors on the condition that they were made publicly available. The Wallace\u00a0owns, for instance, a collection of rare fencing manuals from the Howard De Walden Estate, loaned in lieu of death duties (now known as inheritance tax).\u00a0The Art Newspaper<\/em>\u00a0understands that public access to these holdings is a condition of the long-term loan.<\/p>\n

The library also houses a collection of rare early Phillips auction<\/a> catalogues, and recently entered into an agreement with Bonhams auction house that involves transferring the ownership of its catalogues to the collection.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for the Wallace Collection says: \u201cWe are currently in an internal consultation about some proposed changes to the library and archive, which would potentially impact two members of staff. Further details will be released if the proposal goes ahead following consultation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wallace’s annual report for 2018-19 says that \u201cthe library and archives, held in addition to the collection, are continually updated and provide an excellent source of material to enable study of 18th-century French art, European princely arms and armour, and French and British collecting between 1700 and 1900. There is also a handling collection of objects used for teaching and demonstration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wallace Collection is a national museum, which houses paintings dating from the 14th to the mid-19th century by artists such as Titian, Rembrandt and V\u00e9lazquez. The works were bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, the widow of Sir Richard Wallace, in 1897.<\/p>\n

It receives grant-in-aid funding from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which amounted to \u00a32.7m in 2018-19. The museum also launched an endowment fund in 2015-16 that received donations totalling \u00a3870,000 in 2018-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/<\/div>\n

Petition against the move claims that management want to \u2018orientate the museum to income generation\u2019 The library and archives at the Wallace Collection in London are under threat of closure as part of cost-cutting measures being considered by senior management at the museum. 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