The mayor of Yarmouth says she didn't know the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia was shutting down its western branch in her town until she saw workers removing some of the gallery's signs. 

"There was no absolutely no indication until it happened," Pam Mood told CBC News.

"It was just wrong. You don't do something like that to a community without at least a heads-up."

The Friends of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Western Branch Society said they were also blindsided by the decision, which the gallery an…