When a Museum becomes an Archive - what does it mean for Public Access to the collections that were acquired to be made accessible ...

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When a Museum becomes an Archive - what does it mean for Public Access - collections, that were acquired with funds intended to make them accessible ... The Museum now Archive - is the same Registered Charity with the same core trustees?

From the Type Archive website www.typearchive.org :
The Type Archive at 100 Hackford Road, London, SW9 0QU holds three major typefounding collections (some 8 million artefacts), two funded in the 1990s by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and the third by Juliet Kindersley.

From the National Heritage Memorial Fund's website:
‘Public access: NHMF expect that a part of your project will be to give the public access to the item/s you wish to acquire. If an object is too fragile for long term display or unrestricted access to land or a building could put it at risk, then managed or restricted access can be considered.’

Therefore it would appear that the terms of the NHMF funding have been broken for several years. and three generations of undergraduate students have been deprived access to the worlds most comprehensive collection of type production technology and the historical artefacts of its creation and contribution to cultural and economic life.

We wish the Archive well and continue to offer it our support and look forward to the earliest prospect of it once more being made open to the public ...