To be fair, the IWM have filmed ads and stuff at Duxford; the BA advert was done there, and more recently a promo film for Fujitsu (I think) was done, using some RAF ground equipment; but having said that, they are awful at publicity. When they get a new exhibit it's usually the jungle drums on the day that let us know what's going on, and the items are squirreled away without fanfare. Sometimes they have a press day, but it's usually well after the event.
Sadly these days it's the corporate events that are filling the coffers (not that they are filling up very fast), and the original aims of what the museum was about are at risk of being lost. If it is to educate the public, it can do it using whatever historical items it can lay its hands on. Plenty of museums have replicas and lookalikes on display, the message can still be put across. If they continue with current policy then more artefacts look set to depart, and how then do you convince punters to stump up what is quite a steep admission price to look at a reduced collection of exhibits?
Last edited by Nopax,thanx; 8th Jul 2012 at 19:36.