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MGM2008 Commendations


The case studies of the ten shortlisted museums and galleries with the winning entries first.


Making a Museum at Keats House

1. Keats House Museum (currently closed for refurbishment), London Metropolitan Archives and EC1 New Deal for communities: Wallace and Gromit Make a Museum! 17th May 2008
Theme: Create your own museum by learning about conservation, collections and stories.

2. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts: Late Shift – Museums at Night Special
Using China and Ideas and Innovation as inspiration.

3. Museums Sheffield Weston Park Space Age: Launch Day
Themed on Space Age, design, exploration and popular culture

4.Mansfield Museum, Mansfield, Notts: Museum in the Blitz – Night at the Museum
Themed on life in Mansfield during the Second World War

5. Museum Development Service for Hampshire & the Isle of Wight (HIOW): Museum Mayhem
A festival of Ideas and Innovation for 50 museums and heritage sites

6. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Full Bloom, Late Shows
A 12 hour artwork of fresh lilies to which the public could add messages of love

7. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery: Norwich Castle Tea Day
Reader offer tea-tasting experience with Let’s Go Magazine.

8. Museum of Dartmoor Life, Okehampton in partnership with RAMM, Exeter: ‘Dartmoor Rocks’ exhibition and ‘Bones and Stones - Family Finds Day
Exploring natural materials, natural science and archaeology, within the context of the landscape of Dartmoor.

9. Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham: Meet the Artist!
This event introduced a new artist in residence to the public through a one day event.

10.Spacex Gallery in collaboration with The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World and Robert Brown of the School of Architecture, University of Plymouth: Build a Brilliant Bird Box.
Themed on architecture and design for birds.