The trustees of the Type Museum have taken the decision this week to CLOSE the museum due to lack of funding.
These unique collections <http://www.typemuseum.org/> spanning the evolution of type design and manufacture may be split up and the majority put into storage - unlikely to see the light of day again.
You are receiving this email because you have previously expressed your interest in, and support for the Type Museum. We need your help urgently if we are save the Type Museum as a working resource for the future.
A meeting began the Type Museum Society campaign to ensure a working future for the collections on Wednesday 24th May
at the Type Museum
100 Hackford Road London SW9 0QU
See the group site for the fuller report and follow up.
We need every kind of active support if we are to succeed.
If you are able to express your support, get involved, or have any other time, ideas (or money!) to
offer please let us know at: Thank you in anticipation
Tim Martin
for the Type Museum Society
www.typemuseumsociety.org
Forty people came to the meeting last night despite the wind and rain.
Many more apologies were received with pledges of support - a board was
filled with just a small part of the email messages. A report on the
situation as it appears to supporters and former staff of the Museum
was given and questions put and answered. What future the collections
face was discussed but there was uncertainty about the course of events
and timescale. It was agreed to seek further information from the
trustees. The central theme expressed was the objective to keep the
collections together and accessible. Support was expressed for widening
the publicity about the collections and their predicament. A further
meeting will take place in one week on Wednesday 31.05.06 at the Type
Museum at 18.30.
The trustees of the Type Museum recognise the concern expressed among
its community of friends and well-wishers regarding the future of the
Museum, and wish to make it clear that, although it has been necessary
to close the Museum for legal reasons, the trustees, staff and other
responsible bodies all remain committed to the Museum's well-being.
Careful consideration of the issues involved takes place continuously
as part of the normal activities of the Museum. Because these
discussions are continuing, it is not possible to determine the
specific resolution to which they will come. Until the completion of
these discussions, any conclusions drawn by those not taking part are
necessarily premature and speculative, and could be prejudicial to
their outcome.
The trustees welcome the present public interest in the Museum and
acknowledges the depth of support elicited, but they also hope that
credence will be reserved for those officially appointed and legally
entrusted with the duty of safeguarding and preserving the Museum and
its collections.
Type Museum Closure ! - Meeting 24.05.2006
Type Museum Trustees Statement Release 2.June 06 23.14