Ipswich Museum closes in 2 weeks-this collection will not be there in 2025 when the museum reopens. It is not part of the Grade II * listing. Please keep sharing this petition!

Look at the planning application on the borough council website, there is no space allocated to this wonderful collection. We have asked the question directly of the Council if it will be retained and no one has responded- we deduce then it will be removed, though this hasn’t been admitted.

If the council want to get back to us and tell us we have got this wrong we would be delighted.

How can we urge the museum to consider a more sensitive approach to their plans for the museum? And save and restore this haunting, atmospheric, locally specific and educational collection. Email us saveipswichmuseum@yahoo.com

The museum was publicising this unique collection as part of Heritage Open weekend only last weekend, this is what the Museum say about the collection in their own publicity.

The Ogilvie British Bird Gallery

Our vast collection of British birds on display is considered to be one of the most important and complete in the country to have been assembled by one person. Fergus Menteith Ogilvie (1861-1918) was a 'sportsman-naturalist' with a great enthusiasm for the study of birds and orchids which he carried out with thoroughness and scientific insight.

Why are they no longer going to display it?