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Closed Restore DCMS funding for People's History Museum, Manchester

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The People's History Museum in Manchester faces a £200,000 gap in its budget due to government funding cuts.

Regardless of the reasons for the cut it is crucial to sustain funding for this museum. At a time when the government is keen to tackle extremism with a focus on the importance of liberty and democracy, the People's History Museum provides a rare example of a museum representing the fight for these values in Britain itself.

Funding for museums already disproportionately favours London, it is vital that we ensure that a vibrant, informative regional museum which offers key educational insights into the lives and struggles of ordinary British people can continue to operate at its current level of excellence.

Further information:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/people-s-history-museum-funding-settlement-letters

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/museum-says-pacifist-exhibit-on-first-world-war-led-to-funding-cut-9763339.html

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