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The Wedgwood Museum, Stoke on Trent, has been awarded the 2009 Art Fund Prize. This annual prize of £100,000 is made to a project ‘that demonstrates originality and excellence, and increases public appreciation of all that museums and galleries have to offer’. From the press release: ‘The WedgwoodMuseum magnificently celebrates the extraordinary achievement of Britain’s industrial history. It is a richly deserving winner of this Prize, and its victory could not have come at a better time for the area, after all the uncertainty there has been over the future of the factory which still operates alongside the museum’. For the first time this year the public was also a judge in the People’s Choice poll. Over 27,000 people voted on guardian.co.uk, also choosing The Wedgwood Museum as their clear winner.
www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk www.artfundprize.org.uk
An even larger sum has been granted by the Heritage Lottery Fund to the Mary Rose Trust. Completion of the conservation of this famous Tudor warship, plus construction of a permanent museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard will now be possible thanks to £21m from HLF to join the £10 raised by the Trust. The project is due to open in 2012 in time for the Olympics. www.maryrose.org/new_museum/index.html
While we are on the subject of funds for museums, £61m (including £15m from HLF) has been spent on the redevelopment of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The new building, which opened at the beginning of November, provides 100% more display space in a structure that combines its original Victorian identity with exciting modern architecture. 39 new galleries contain innovative interpretations of the collection, and there are an education centre, state of the art conservation facilities and a rooftop restaurant. www.ashmolean.org
LHN has been following the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA) project at Blists Hill in the Ironbridge Gorge. The latest element to open is The Museum of the Post Office in the Community, housed above the Victorian Post Office in Canal Street (see LHN 92 p 23). The exhibition is in four sections: Post Office Counter Sevices, Delivering the Mail, Letter Boxes, and Changing Times. www.postalheritage.org.uk/ironbridge
A new exhibition at Chertsey Museum opened in September. ‘An Image of Itself: fashions inspired by the past’ features key pieces from the Olive Matthews Collection of Costume. It explores the way in which fashion is constantly influenced by styles of the past, through careful juxtaposition of garments, sometimes centuries apart in date. www.chertseymuseum.org.uk
Developments at the Galleries of Justice Museum in Nottingham include new audio guides, performance tours, and a special Christmas package of ‘Sheriff’s Banquets’. Their latest exhibition, in association with the Open University, opened in September and tells the story of the 1984 miners’ strike ‘from all sides’. Alongside the museum is the National Centre for Citizenship and the Law (NCCL), a national educational charity working with young people across the UK. NCCL aims to provide innovative and engaging resources to help develop young people’s understanding of the law. The Galleries of Justice provides exciting interactive exhibitions and tours including the Citizen’s Zone, which provides a national and regional citizenship and crime reduction learning resource. This explores social and moral rights and responsibilities, community involvement and legal literacy. Above all, their work is dedicated to teaching young people about the past, helping them act today and empowering them to change tomorrow. www.galleriesofjustice.org.uk www.nccl.org.uk
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