| Comment | Don't have any special knowledge re. the situation with The Lighthouse specifically, but Glasgow Life has struggled terribly with funding cuts. Venues opening hours have been trimmed across the board and staffing levels at many venues seem to be at or even below bare minimum. I can understand why The Lighthouse might have
> Another example of Glasgow not taking care of its artistic heritage and letting it just…decay.
It should be said that one of the big problems cultural venues in Glasgow face is that they are by and large *city* assets, not *national* assets (or liabilities, as the case may be).
In Edinburgh, a significant number of popular museums and cultural venues are national assets, supported directly by national funding to a degree that just doesn't happen in Glasgow or elsewhere. |
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