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Happy 150th Birthday Gloucester City Museum!
Happy 150th Birthday Gloucester City Museum!
9th June 2010
Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery is 150 years old this year and you are invited to her birthday party. Come and join the team (in your best Victorian party frock or trousers if you like!) for the Happy Birthday exhibition opening party on Friday 11th June.
The Museum Service has recently been awarded a substantial Heritage Lottery Grant and the City Museum will be closing in September 2010 until Easter 2011 for a complete makeover. Concept designs for this transformation will be on show at the party along with how the museum has changed in the last 150 years
The Museum will be staying open late until 8pm on the 11th and there will also be a whole host of activities for all the family.
4.30 - 5.30 - Party games
5pm onwards - Guided tours of the museum
6pm - A talk by Nigel Cox on the origins of the museum
6.30pm - Birthday speeches
6.45pm Cutting the birthday cake
7pm - 8pm - Eating cake and having fun
Friday 11 th June Extended opening hours 10am - 8pm (Events from 4.30pm - 8pm)
Happy Birthday Exhibition
Coincidently the City Museum opened to the public 150 years ago this year while the Folk Museum is celebrating its 75 birthday. This in-house exhibition is designed to celebrate our Victorian founders, the collections and objects that they donated and their inspiration to educate and enlighten the people of Gloucester.
On display will be some of the original collections, a recreation of a Victorian curator's office, paintings and illustrations of Victorian Gloucester, original catalogues, brochures, letters and newspaper reports of the time including the civic procession which was the original opening event..
This exhibition will give us a chance to explore the history of the museum, how displays have evolved during the last 150 years, and what comes next....
The exhibition will run from 12th June - 3rd July
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