Lucy Hawes
@lucyhawes
Art Fund head of press, previously Whitechapel Gallery and V&A
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21-02-2009 23:33:05
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Coming up tonight... 🌟 Kevin Bacon on his new thriller, 'Should Have Left' 🌟 Grayson Perry reveals the winners of Art Fund's #museumoftheyear 🌟 Joe Crowley investigates how nearly 50,000 salmon dodged our dinner plates Live from 7pm on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer! #TheOneShow
🎉🎉🎉 The winners of #MuseumOfTheYear 2020 are Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums, Gairloch Museum, Science Museum, South London Gallery & Towner Eastbourne. Congratulations all. 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you to Grayson Perry (@alan_measles) and BBC The One Show for making the big announcement.
A long read by me, on the state of our museums. Over 4000 jobs lost. Florence Nightingale Museum 💙 will not reopen in 2021. Royal Academy has lost 18,000 Friends in a year, representing £2.5 million. the Whitworth has cut its exhibitions budget by 75%. And so, sadly, on inews.co.uk/culture/museum…
Back to work after a year of mat leave in time to announce a brilliant shortlist for #MuseumoftheYear - 5 great finalists competing to win the world's biggest museum prize. Including our local in SE London Horniman Museum and Gardens!
Thanks BBC Radio 4 Today Martha Kearney for having me on the programme to announce Art Fund #MuseumOfTheYear finalists. This video shows how brilliant they all are -
Who are the finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022? The winner receives £100,000, with the result announced in July at London’s the Design Museum. Our guide to the five museums in contention, announced on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning:- bbc.in/3vZjFGy
In other news…museums are getting on with tackling the vital issues of today - Horniman Museum and Gardens Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill @PHMMcr The Story Museum Tŷ Pawb are the five exceptional finalists for Art Fund #MuseumoftheYear . The winner will be announced on 14 July.
Breaking news… London’s Horniman Museum and Gardens has just been named the 2022 Art Fund #MuseumoftheYear. Congratulations to Horniman Museum and Gardens. Discover more about it and the other fantastic shortlistees Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill, @PHMMcr, The Story Museum, Tŷ Pawb here: bbc.in/3uOKagV
🥁It's time to reveal the finalists for #MuseumOfTheYear 2023. 🥁 🎉The Burrell Collection, Leighton House and Sambourne House, The MAC, Natural History Museum & Scapa Flow Museum💫 🏆 Congratulations!