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Media Museum "saved"

MPs in Bradford claim Bradford's National Media Museum is "saved" after meeting the Culture Minister Ed Vaizey in Westminster. The Science Museum Group is considering shutting one of its centres to save money.

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MPs claim Media Museum "saved"

MPs claim Bradford's National Media Museum has been saved by a city-wide campaign.

Bradford West MP George Galloway claims the government's culture minister said to him "tell the people of Bradford the museum is safe".

Gerry Sutcliffe MP has also tweeted the future is "looking brighter"

David Ward MP has also tweeted "museum safe...but new plan required for future".

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has just released this statement: “The Chancellor will shortly set out the Government’s spending plans for 2015/16 however we are clear about the value of The Media Museum in Bradford to the local area and the UK as a whole.”

"This is a triumph for public opinion and for democracy. It shows that if you fight you aren't guaranteed to win but if you don't fight you are guaranteed to lose. The public campaign has proved that. What a campaign and what a result.

"The minister said, "tell the people of Bradford the museum is safe". There will still be haggling, I'm sure, over the modalities, between the Government, the local authority and the Science Museum Group about who pays for what and what the museum's focus should be.

"Visitors to the museum have halved over the last decade."

– George Galloway, Bradford West MP
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