Apr 14 2009

Conservation centre set to close

Published by admin at 9:12 pm under TCC closure in the news

From the BBC News

A number of textile specialists are to be made redundant when a conservation centre shuts amid a funding crisis.

Winchester School of Art’s Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) in Hampshire, which is part of the University of Southampton, will shut on 31 October.

Earlier, the university told the BBC it could no longer “cross-subsidise” it.

The centre’s foundation hoped some of the work would be transferred to Oxford University but said that was “not feasible”.

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