UK museums’ rising energy costs could hamper ‘warm banks’ plan

Museum directors in absolute despair' at latest blow after Covid decline in revenues

Museums have said they will struggle to provide warm banks" planned for people priced out of heating their homes, because their own soaring bills threaten opening restrictions and closures this winter.

The Museums Association said on Tuesday that the cost of living crisis risked being a bigger blow to the sector than the pandemic, with many museum directors in despair about how to pay for energy bill increases of up to 500%.