Three Bristol museums threatened with closure set to be saved View Image

Three Bristol museums threatened with closure last year are set to be saved after city council chiefs found ways to make more money from them.

The plans in the authority’s annual draft budget mean The Red Lodge, Georgian House and Blaise Museum would keep their doors open.

And the council says its ideas to raise the combined £142,000 extra income required would not mean having to introduce entrance charges as previously suggested , although the proposals are in an early stage and would depend on government finance settlements being finalised later this year.

When councillors agreed the 2025/26 budget in February, it included a 12-month “stay of execution” for the three small museums that were earmarked

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