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Minories art gallery to close due to coronavirus pressures

Liz Hill
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Financial pressures have forced The Minories art gallery in Colchester to close. The leaseholder is Colchester Institute, which had been subsidising the gallery from its core funding for a number of years. The financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic means that although the college still has three years of its lease to run, "it had little option but to close down the operation with immediate effect".