{"id":639972,"date":"2025-12-18T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639972\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:42:14","slug":"shock-as-banbury-museums-council-funding-faces-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639972\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shock&#8217; as Banbury Museum&#8217;s council funding faces consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lisa Gale, manager of the Vale &amp; Downland Museum in Wantage, described Banbury Museum&#8217;s predicament as &#8220;not good news&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The museum sector is struggling a lot at the moment, and we are feeling the effects here, even though we offer free entry,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the rising costs that are so difficult to manage without significant increase in income&#8230; it&#8217;s really important that this situation is raised so people use museums and they aren&#8217;t lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oxford City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy0kye1w0yxo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently voted to introduce an entrance fee<\/a> to visitors at the Museum of Oxford from January next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cherwell District Council consultation closes on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Gale, manager of the Vale &amp; Downland Museum in Wantage, described Banbury Museum&#8217;s predicament as &#8220;not good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-639972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115739921160504704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}