Folk Gallery 'not fit for purpose'

Thursday, 17 October 2019 06:13

By Rob Pritchard @rpritchard9

The Folk Gallery at the Manx Museum is 'no longer fit for purpose', according to Enterprise Minister, Laurence Skelly MHK.

He was asked in Tynwald this week by Arbory, Castletown & Malew MHK, Jason Moorhouse, if he would make a statement on the decision by Manx National Heritage to remove the exhibition from the venue.

However, Mr Skelly says the displays have been 3D scanned to be part of a digital archive and ideas to relocate some of its elements to other sites are being looked at.

The gallery is expected to make way for a new TT installation - thousands of residents have signed a recent petition to keep the display.

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