A recent email from the Lute Society ominously listed the following new item (below)
However - the online petition has been closed. Does anyone have current details on this plan; when the musical instrument gallery is slated to close, and whom to write to to protest? What an insane idea! And a sad cultural loss to the city of Vienna (and the world) if this magnificent exhibition closes! >PETITION AGAINST THE CLOSURE OF THE VIENNA MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTION GALLERIES >It seems that there is a chance that the Vienna collection of musical instruments will be put into storage and the present rooms allotted to some Austrian government department - all the more idiotic as there are sufficient unused rooms the same building. We've seen this sort of thing happen at the V & A, and what a loss that is. In the case of Vienna, this would mean that the most important collection of lutes in the world would be closed, and that would be catastrophic. >I have been asked to circulate following link to an online petition a please sign and copy it to friends: [1]https://www.change.org/p/bundespr%C3%A4sident-der-republik-%C3%B6ste rreich-dr-heinz-fischer-in-der-wiener-hofburg-droht-der-sammlung-alter- musikinstrumente-das-aus-stimmen-sie-f%C3%BCr-den-erhalt-dieser-interna tional-renommierten-ausstellung -- References 1. https://www.change.org/p/bundespr%C3%A4sident-der-republik-%C3%B6sterreich-dr-heinz-fischer-in-der-wiener-hofburg-droht-der-sammlung-alter-musikinstrumente-das-aus-stimmen-sie-f%C3%BCr-den-erhalt-dieser-international-renommierten-ausstellung To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
