Due to my knowledge of the museums and how they have been hit by funding cuts, I am doing to create a short (five minutes approx) documentary about the different museums in Hull, mainly the Streetlife and the Archaeological museum, and how the funding cuts have affected them.
I am going to talk about how the Streetlife museum was hit and how it cannot afford to digitalise it’s exhibits. I will talk about the Heritage Lottery Fund, a fund for museums to keep them open, and will talk about how the Streetlife museum is asking for a donation in order to keep the museum free.
I will talk about how the Archaeological museum has been hit by funding cuts, and ask the question “will it always be free?” and I will go into the finds days that happen every two months. I will explain how the staff from the Portable Antiquities Scheme has been cut and therefore only one person travels around to the finds days and takes in items to record and identify. I will speak to amateur archaeologists about how they feel about the finds days only taking a limited amount of finds from amateur archaeologists and how some people feel that they are losing history, because people will stop coming to the finds days and will not record their finds, therefore we are losing history because the finds arent being recorded.
I will try and get interviews with the museum curator Paula Gentil, and possibly an interview with the PAS finds officer, and will try to get vox pops around or outside the museum, asking people their views on how they think the funding cuts are affecting the museums, if they know about it, and if they think museums should always be free.
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