Horniman in the running for Museum of the Year 2013

[HornimanMuseumGarden]

We are one of ten finalists in the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2013, the largest UK arts prize at ?100,000.

The Prize highlights the innovative and creative ways that museums bring objects and collections to life, looking specifically at 2012 activities.

Being a finalist is a real tribute, and we want to thank you all for helping this to happen. Your continued visits and support over the years have enabled the Museum to go from strength to strength.

The winner will be announced live on BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme on 4 June, so remember to tune in! There is more information about the prize at http://www.artfund.org/news/2013/04/02/museum-of-the-year-2013-finalists-announced. Keen photographers amongst you will see there is the opportunity to join in with your own photographs of the Horniman ? more from us on that later?

From now until the end of May five judges will travel the UK to see the ten museums, revealing the winners on 4 June. All fingers crossed for us please!!

[lane lover]

Dulwich Picture Gallery too: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1081285,1081473#msg-1081473

A great advertisement for SE London !

[rbrtdngl]

Congratulations to you both. Good luck

[dulwichhealthmatters]

Good luck Horniman ( and DPG too). This is well deserved, the place is looking great.

[Burbage]

lane lover Wrote:

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> Dulwich Picture Gallery too:

> http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5

> ,1081285,1081473#msg-1081473

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> A great advertisement for SE London !

That makes two in one day.

[HornimanMuseumGarden]

Thank you for your good luck wishes and kind comments :)

[giggirl]

Well done. Fantastic news.

[Freddy1929]

Well Done Horniman!!!

Spent a lot of my childhood in that building, always a great place to take the kids on a wet day in half term, as my Daughter and Grandson will testify, even now he is a strapping young man, he still want to go to Horniman when he visits!!

[HornimanMuseumGarden]

Hello, here is an update about a photography competition that you might like to enter which the Art Fund are organising to celebrate the Museum of the Year 2013 Prize.

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Can you take a winning photograph of the Horniman?

To celebrate 2013?s Prize, the Art Fund are also organising a photography competition.

The best shot representing each of the ten finalists will be chosen by the Art Fund and the winning photograph will then be decided by a public vote. We?re looking for innovative, atmospheric and humorous shots that creatively capture the spirit of the Horniman, from a stunning exterior to your favourite object.

For details about how to enter and the fantastic prizes available, visit http://www.horniman.ac.uk/get_involved/blog/blog/museum-of-the-year-photography-competition

The photograph of the Horniman which makes it into the final ten will also be displayed in the Museum for one month.

We'd also love you to share your entries with us by adding them to our Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/horniman_museum/, or sharing them on Twitter @HornimanMuseum.

Closing date: Wednesday 15 May.

Good luck!

[Toldyouso]

Very well done to both of you!

[No-flies]

Congratulations. A great achievement for the local area to have two short listed museums.

[swanson]

Congratulations Horniman, well deserved, we love our weekly visits with the kids to the Busy Bees sessions and the Aquarium. Good luck!