I think it may be more that cultural institutions in large urban centers may be more prone to the fickle whims of the grossly popular.
Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of stuart > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:23 AM > To: Lute List > > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Closure of V&A Instrument Gallery > > I recently spent a few hours in the music section of the Deutsches > National > Museum in Nurnberg. I was last there about 10 years ago and the display is > just as good / perhaps better. Nurnberg is not a rich city (e.g. compared > to > Frankfurt or London). I guess the people who make such decisions in the > V&A > must be quite ignorant. > > Cheers - Stuart McLuckie > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html