{"id":659484,"date":"2025-12-28T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659484\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:20:17","slug":"phenomenal-year-for-the-box-museum-and-art-gallery-in-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659484\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Phenomenal year&#8217; for The Box museum and art gallery in Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laing said with local authority budgets stretched, keeping The Box free to visitors was &#8220;difficult&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a continual conundrum about how you keep funding an institution like The Box,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s no secret that local authority budgets are very, very tight. It&#8217;s not just Plymouth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s something we have to continually advocate for because lots of local authorities don&#8217;t invest in culture anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year saw exhibitions such as Forbidden Territories \u2013 100 years of Surrealism, and Jyll Bradley&#8217;s Running and Returning, alongside temporary displays like Remember Respond Resist featuring Grayson Perry&#8217;s tapestries, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our five-year impact report really showed the economic impact of the Box and the importance of prioritising cultural activity,&#8221; Laing said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laing said with local authority budgets stretched, keeping The Box free to visitors was &#8220;difficult&#8221;. &#8220;It&#8217;s a continual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-659484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115796457787529630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659484","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=659484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}