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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dalya Alberge

University College London staff voice concern over ‘dismantling’ of Art Museum

Moses and the Brazen Serpent by Augustus John is one of the Art Museum’s 10,000-strong collection.
Moses and the Brazen Serpent by Augustus John is one of the Art Museum’s 10,000-strong collection. Photograph: Bridgeman Images

Academics are outraged that University College London (UCL) has failed to put its Art Museum and significant art collection at the heart of its bicentennial redevelopment plans.

David Bindman, UCL’s emeritus professor of the history of art, voiced concern that the museum in the South Cloisters – the centre of William Wilkins’ 1820s building – is being turned into a mixed-use space under proposals submitted to the planning authority, Camden council.

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