Gearing up for Museums and Galleries Month 2007
Plans for this year’s Museums and Galleries Month, supported by Renaissance, are now under way. Promising to be the biggest ever celebration of its kind, the programme planned for May features a wide range of activities in museums, galleries and heritage attractions. Some key events are:
The ‘Welcome Weekend’ coincides with the May Bank Holiday weekend, 4 – 7 May
European ‘Night of the Museum’- Nuit des Musees - on Saturday 19 May has really caught museums’ imaginations this year with torch lit tours, late night music and even a “cultural tapas”
MGM debates will take place at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and National Museum Liverpool
Family history workshops are being held in association with the Archive Awareness Campaign, exploring personal and regional heritage
Online initiatives with the 24 Hour Museum and VisitBritain and a programme of arts activities are still to be announced
Events will relate to this year’s theme: ‘People : Who are we’, exploring the relationship between museums and identity
For more information contact Ylva French at the Campaign for Museums on 020 7233 9796 or log onto: www.mgm.org.uk for the latest information
The ‘Welcome Weekend’ coincides with the May Bank Holiday weekend, 4 – 7 May
European ‘Night of the Museum’- Nuit des Musees - on Saturday 19 May has really caught museums’ imaginations this year with torch lit tours, late night music and even a “cultural tapas”
MGM debates will take place at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and National Museum Liverpool
Family history workshops are being held in association with the Archive Awareness Campaign, exploring personal and regional heritage
Online initiatives with the 24 Hour Museum and VisitBritain and a programme of arts activities are still to be announced
Events will relate to this year’s theme: ‘People : Who are we’, exploring the relationship between museums and identity
For more information contact Ylva French at the Campaign for Museums on 020 7233 9796 or log onto: www.mgm.org.uk for the latest information
Comments
After going to watch 'Night at the Museum' I am dying to spend a night at a real museum to see if everything really does come to life. So we need to find a museum with an ancient Egyptian gold tablet with magical powers... ha well maybe that is all in my imagination but I will certainly keep an eye open...
And if all elese fails how about a fancy dress party where people come as their favourite museum? Apologies to Mayra and her idea for fancy dress as a museum object.
Though I'm afraid you're on your own with the idea about spending the night in a museum. I don't even like walking past New Walk Museum after dark - it's the strange blue glow emanating from the Dinosaur gallery that gets me. :S