Queen s plaque at ICC disappears behind bars in run-up to its 30th anniversary
It was the building designed to reinvent Birmingham, but as the 30th anniversary of the ICC approaches the giant plaque unveiled by the Queen is now behind the bars of a new fence
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Almost exactly 30 years after it was unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen at the opening of the ICC, the plaque in her honour remains the biggest of its kind in town.
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HE NUMBER of visitors to museums around the world collapsed last year. According to an annual survey published by
The Art Newspaper last month, the biggest museums in America, Brazil, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia and Spain as well as Britain welcomed fewer than 20% of their usual numbers.
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Many governments were quick to offer support. Germany, France and Britain all announced emergency funds of at least £1bn to help their culture sectors survive the catastrophic loss of income. Even in America, where public funding for cultural institutions is scarcer, the federal government earmarked $200m for museums under last year’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. But the way British museums are financed means they have fared particularly badly.
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By EARLE GALE in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-02-01 09:09 Share CLOSE Staff members dust off an exhibit ahead of the reopening of the British Museum in London in August last year. HAN YAN/XINHUA
Art, cultural facilities that rely on ticket sales struggle to survive amid pandemic lockdowns
The United Kingdom s long and colorful history, which many tourists cite as a major reason for visiting, could become less vivid and less of a draw in a post-pandemic world because of the closure of some of the country s museums and historical sites.
The facilities, many of which are run as charities or not-for-profit entities, rely heavily on revenue from ticket sales and have suffered greatly from lost income during lockdowns aimed at limiting the spread of the novel coronavirus.