The Amstelveen city council will have more time to decide on the future of the ailing Cobra Museum.
In fact, the council should decide next Wednesday whether they will the council’s proposal to stop the subsidy to the museum would take over.
That happens too quickly for many council members: during last Wednesday’s council meeting Regarding the dire financial situation, they already indicated that they needed more time for the – as former VVD councilor Piet van der Heuvel called it – ‘historic decision’.
Just enough fat on the bones
They now have that time: because the museum still has enough fat on its bones to last until the end of September. Although the forecast earlier this year was that the museum would make a loss of 700,000 euros this year, that forecast has now been outdated thanks to the bad weather in July, museum director Stefan van Raay said last Wednesday.
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The extra council meeting scheduled for next Wednesday will remain on the agenda. At the end of that meeting, the council can make the decision immediately, or decide to postpone the vote to the regular council meeting of Wednesday, September 27.
If the annual municipal subsidy of 1.2 million euros stops, the museum will most likely go bankrupt.