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Type Museum Society Google Group
Fill in the form below to keep up with the latest support for the Type Museum Society Campaign. Please don't be scared off by the Are you over eighteen? Question - The scariest thing here is the thought of losing all that typographic treasure!! You will need to set up a googlemail account if you don't have one to use this group part of the log in process. The alternative is to become a member at the Google Group page but there we have to invite everyone individually - ask if thats what you prefer by email to typemuseumsociety@gmail.com
Possible model for our constitution!
Suggested by one of our supporters: Could supporters with a legal sense have a look through it and pass any comments on it's suitability to typemuseumsociety@gmail.com
Type Museum Closure ! - Appeal
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: typemuseumsociety@gmail.com>
Thank you in anticipation
Tim Martin
for the Type Museum Society
www.typemuseumsociety.org
typemuseumsociety@gmail.com
Type Museum Closure ! - Meeting 24.05.2006
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.
Resources
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