Sir,
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery is a completely voluntary and independent body.
Its doors are open to all, irrespective of their ethnic, religious or political persuasions.
It is not, however, a platform for the propagation of any such subjects.
If offence was incurred by visitors and guests at last Saturday's Petersen Exhibition opening, by remarks which may have detracted from a happy and enjoyable visit to the museum, as chairman of the trustees, I disassociate the museum unequivocally from these remarks and tender my apologies to those guests and visitors who were offended in any way.
Wilfred Hardy,
Chairman of Trustees,
Tenby Museum and
Art Gallery,
Treetops,
Serpentine Road,
Tenby.
Sir,
We had the opening of the David Peterson exhibition at Tenby Museum on Saturday, October 4, at 7 pm. It was well attended and the exhibition was opened by Kenneth Griffith.
Having been a past trustee and also still actively involved in voluntary work in the museum, I was shocked and appalled by the political speech that this man gave and would wish to say to all those people that were there, that the choice of speaker was not the museum's.
The exhibition is one of the first of its kind to be put on in the museum and by such a well known sculptor as David Peterson; it is a pity that the opening was marred by a man who just wanted to express his political thoughts.
D. W. Perry,
3 Somerset Place,
Park Road,
Tenby.