Theatre Museum archive

The old Theatre Museum archive, now at the V&A (formerly at Blythe House), looks likely to be a casualty of the museum’s need to cut expenditure. Its loss would be a devastating blow to any archival historical research into British theatre. A petition has been sent up by SIBMAS (the International Association of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Documentation Centres of the Performing Arts) asking senior management of the V&A to reconsider the position of the Theatre & Performance Department before they rush to close the archives and library and make responsible staff redundant.  For further information and to sign the petition, click here: https://www.change.org/p/tristram-hunt-director-v-a-performing-art-heritage