AN online petition calling for a world-renowned photography collection to remain in Bradford has now attracted more than 26,000 signatures.
The petition was set up in response to news that about 400,000 images and artefacts, including the Royal Photographic Society collection, were being transferred from the National Media Museum to the V&A in London.
The petition, at the website 38degrees.org.uk, calls on the Science Museum Group to 'stop the cultural asset stripping of Bradford's National Media Museum'.
News of the transfer has also angered politicians across the political spectrum, with all three of the city's Labour MPs expressing dismay at the plans and Conservative councillor Simon Cooke branding it "an appalling act of cultural vandalism".
The images represent around a tenth of the museum's collection.
Bosses at the National Media Museum said the transfer was part of a wider scheme to focus more on the science and technology of light and sound.
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