It has no need to close doors

Here we go again. The council's, often, knee-jerk reaction to a venue which is not making a profit, close it.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th Mar 2016, 08:55 BST
Updated 7th Mar 2016, 08:56 BST

It is not surprising that visitor numbers are poor at Monkwearmouth Railway Museum, nothing ever changes. I am a fairly frequent visitor to the museum, and apart from small exhibitions now and again, there is nothing new or interesting. There is a limit to viewing photographs of the football fans on their way to the 1973 Cup Final – especially at the moment.

Several years ago I was in a party of U3A members on a tour behind the scenes at Sunderland Museum. The number of artefacts in storage was an eye opener.

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Please get some of them over to Monkwearmouth, they could fill those empty rooms.

If some of the Tyne and Wear Museum staff build up new exhibitions a few days at a time, so the museum need not close, the few loyal visitors and others will not be lost.

It’s a challenge, please take it on.

Mrs J Lynch