What’s Happening?
This is where we keep you posted about what’s new and forthcoming events.
GUARDIAN FAMILY FRIENDLY AWARD 2008 WINNER ANNOUNCED
Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, has won The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award. Families had been busy visiting each venue, judging them against the Kids in Museums Manifesto. Here Lottie, aged 3, gets up close to objects at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
See our Awards 08 page for details of the winner and shortlist. Read more about Weston Park in The Guardian’s article on the award.
MUSEUM FOOD
Listen to Kids in Museums Director Dea Birkett on BBC Radio 4’s Food
Programme about museum cafes, and more of Dea’s thoughts on museum food at Take the Family.
KIDS IN MUSEUMS HAS A NEW PATRON
We’re delighted to announce that Mariella Frostrup is now Patron of Kids in Museums. For more about Mariella, go to our Patron and Trustees section in All About Us.
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM GAINS KIDS IN MUSEUMS TRUSTEE
Congratulations to Kids in Museums Trustee Diane Lees for being appointed Director-General of the Imperial War Museums, a post she will take up in October.
Further information about Di is in our Patron & Trustees section, or see the Imperial War Museum website.
EVENTS:
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dea Birkett, Director of Kids in Museums, is opening Nature is a Workshop, Selected from the Arts Council Collection at Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent. Further details from www.turnercontemporary.org.
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Dea Birkett is giving the Beatrice Blackwood Lecture 2008 at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, titled ‘Malcolm in the Middle at a Museum. One metre from the gallery floor, a discovery trail.’
What does it feel like to be a young person visiting a museum? This knee-high tour looks at the joys and challenges facing museums today to include children.
THE GREAT MUSEUM DEBATE
We’re delighted to announce that we will be working with National Museums Liverpool again this year on the second Kids in Museums/National Museums Liverpool GREAT MUSEUM DEBATE. This year’s Debate will be an even bigger and better all-day and evening event on Thursday 12 June 2008. The theme this year is The Museum I’d Like.
HYDROACTIVE WOMEN’S CHALLENGE
We did it! Our director Dea Birkett, Trustee Julie Taylor and several friends and supporters ran the 5km HydroActive Women’s Challenge on September 16th for Kids in Museums.
Our fastest time was a very respectable 23 minutes. Thanks to all of you who sponsored us. Your contributions will go towards enabling more families and children to enjoy the wonders of Britain’s museums. And it’s not too late to make a contribution! If you’d like to sponsor us now, just email getintouch@kidsinmuseums.org.uk.
Kids in Museums logo and banner illustrations all © Quentin Blake.
