One hundred years after the outbreak of the First World War, the Imperial War Museum is under threat.
The Museum is facing an annual deficit of £4m because of cuts in government funding.
It has drawn up proposals to:
• close its unique library and dispose of the majority of its collection
• cut important education services
• cut 60-80 jobs
• close the widely emulated ‘Explore History’ facility in London.
The Museum’s library gives ordinary people access to research materials on all aspects of British and Commonwealth involvement in conflict since 1914.
Prospect trade union believes the world's leading authority on conflict will be irreparably damaged by the £4m deficit.
It has launched this petition to help ensure that the Imperial War Museum continues to provide for, and encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and ‘wartime experience'.
Please show your support by signing today.
See also: Imperial War Museum library petition gathers strength (Daily Telegraph, November 11th 2014)
Imperial War Museum library threatened with closure (Bookseller, November 7th 2014)
