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Wed 08 Aug 2008Cost-cutting merger of art galleries proposed
THE DEPARTMENT of Finance has suggested the three main State galleries could be amalgamated as part of the Government plan to rationalise agencies. HARRY McGEE, Political Staff reports
Correspondence from the Department of Arts, seen by The Irish Times, discloses that finance raised the possibility of the amalgamation of the National Gallery, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma) and the Crawford Gallery in Cork.This arose as part of a "brainstorming exercise" within finance which included the galleries in a list of agencies that might be suitable to be merged or subsumed into others.
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