If Bratford want something to fill that hole and the rest of centrelinnal square a bit of lateral thinking might help.

Was editing my pm page when I found this from Oggit

www.citymuseum.org/home.asp

Have any of the gang found another museum to equal this and where was it?

I can't imagine Bradford council wanting to use their city centre eyesore as a museum. I suspect it will remain empty until the property market / economy heaves itself out of recession.

As for other museums; There are many excellent, award winning, museums within a relatively short distance of Ilkley.

At this point I feel I should declare a professional interest in some of those museums.

Elvis_Himselvis wrote:
I can't imagine Bradford council wanting to use their city centre eyesore as a museum. I suspect it will remain empty until the property market / economy heaves itself out of recession.

As for other museums; There are many excellent, award winning, museums within a relatively short distance of Ilkley.

At this point I feel I should declare a professional interest in some of those museums.

Really!

Would that be animal, vegetable or mineral?

Elvis_Himselvis wrote:
I can't imagine Bradford council wanting to use their city centre eyesore as a museum. I suspect it will remain empty until the property market / economy heaves itself out of recession.

Perhaps they should take the opportunity to join up the train lines between interchange and forster square. Then we could travel through bradford without having to stop.

Imor wrote:
Elvis_Himselvis wrote:
I can't imagine Bradford council wanting to use their city centre eyesore as a museum. I suspect it will remain empty until the property market / economy heaves itself out of recession.

As for other museums; There are many excellent, award winning, museums within a relatively short distance of Ilkley.

At this point I feel I should declare a professional interest in some of those museums.

Really!

Would that be animal, vegetable or mineral?

Errrr... what?

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is pretty cool.

Yorkshiresoul wrote:
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is pretty cool.

Ageed YS - would recommend it, folks.

When Bradford Library service was forcibly merged with the Museum Service both lost focus and a went from being one of the best pair of services in the country to being a forgotten ragbag. Now both have been thrown from department to department so often it doesn't even have a bag, just rags.

Ilkley Museum shows it. I would guess the last makeover was 20 years or more ago, and that was hardly adequate.

Leeds City Museum is one of the best new museums in this country. Bradford could, and should, have done something like it in the Forster Square Post Office building. Instead it got a multi faith centre with no exhibits and no reason for being. All it had was an oily scum of political fashion and 30 million quid of public money (and if anyone wants to call me a liar on the cost please give true cost and your source).

Bradwan wrote:
Instead it got a...centre with no exhibits and no reason for being. All it had was an oily scum of political fashion and 30 million quid of public money

Hmm, now where have I heard that before?

I went to a museum once. It was rubbish

BertieWooster wrote:
Bradwan wrote:
Instead it got a...centre with no exhibits and no reason for being. All it had was an oily scum of political fashion and 30 million quid of public money

Hmm, now where have I heard that before?

I went to a museum once. It was rubbish

Ws that the museum of re-cycled council projects, Bertie?

Bradwan wrote:
Ilkley Museum shows it. I would guess the last makeover was 20 years or more ago, and that was hardly adequate.

I think it was actually rather more than 20 years ago. The good news is they've just finished revamping some of the displays, so it may be worth a second visit.

Yorkshiresoul wrote:
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is pretty cool.

Ilkley College used to be the Northern Annex of the South Kensington School of Art. I'm surprised they don't include cup and ring stones along with the modern sculptures.