Bad blood at Bletchley Park

I was very saddened to read yesterday on boingboing about the escalating rift between the Bletchley Park trust and The National Museum of Computing (TNMoC), and the former's appalling management of the latter. You can read about the story, and see TNMOC's trustees' open letter outlining their grievances here.
 
The company I work for, IP Performance Ltd, have held a number of technology events at TNMoC, and have always ended with a guided tour of the facility, led by one of the volunteers. You can read a news item write-up of one such event on the company website. 

It is these same volunteers that are being fired after years of voluntary service without notice, volunteers who not only undertake the guided tours, but also maintain and restore every single exhibit in the museum.

Unwarranted sackings, removal of collections, limiting access, surrendering editorial control of exhibits and collections to business sponsors - it's a sad and sorry state of affairs. Let's hope public outcry brings pressure to bear to force the Bletchley Park trust to reconsider its decisions.

I wrote a blog on the museum and the Bletchley Park trust's neighbouring permanent Turing exhibit on our company website - you can read it here. 

UPDATE: Please have a look at Gareth Halfacree's well-researched article on the two trusts' debacle here...