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Article: Residents in frame over art gallery upgrade
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Residents are being asked to help decide whether a shake-up of
Scarborough's cultural quarter merits a [Pounds]5m upgrade of the art
gallery or a much more modest scheme.
Consultants were called in to consider the potential of
Scarborough Art Gallery to become the town's main exhibition venue
for fine art, archaeology, social history and natural history,
following the redevelopment of Wood End Museum into a Creative
Industries Centre.
After gauging opinion in the town, consultancy firm ABL has
produced a report which looks at six options for the gallery
building.
Ideas range from improving the existing exhibition space and
making the building comply with the disabled access legislation, ...