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Volunteering kept me going but now austerity has killed my museum

I fought to keep my local museum open for the staff, volunteers, community, and children but my voice was ignored

Related: Who runs local museums and how are they surviving the funding crisis?

The council has suggested that volunteers will still be involved in handling the part of the collection that is to be moved to the central library. I believe that untrained volunteers can do more harm than good to museum objects, and with no museum staff and loss of museum accreditation, volunteers would not be able to access many funding and training courses.