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MUSEUMS AT NIGHT EVENTS
This year's events a roaring success!
To coincide with the national 'Museums at Night' festival the Folk Museum and City Museum played host to seperate events during the weekend. Both events were a huge success, with the City Museum event - the 'Science Spectacular' meeting huge demand and completely selling out before the night.
The evenings saw hands-on potion making, gallery tours, scientific experiments and instant photos at the City Museum, and visitors being part of a large social experiment at the Folk Museum. To view a selection of photos taken at the Science Spectacular, please follow this link|.
The City and Folk Museums both made it through to the final of the 'Museums at Night' competition, to win a top named contemporary artist for two specially arranged events in May. Both Museums came in third place after all votes had been counted, and did extremely well to have gotten so far, competing against some of the biggest museums in the country.
Thank you to everyone who supported these events and came along, we have received rave reviews and are very much looking forward to the next evening events - already planned for August! To be amongst the first to hear about these events make sure you're signed up to our mailing list (click on the link to the left of this page).
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The Gloucester City and Folk Museums have many exciting events, exhibitions, activities, talks and tours coming up over the next few months. Tickets for some events are now available to purchase online through the Gloucester Guildhall box office, you will find links to purchase tickets within the event details through this website.
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This June sees a special talk at the City Museum, given by Joanne Hatton, Keeper of Natural history at the Horniman Museum in London.
The talk is entitled 'Taxidermy, Tradition and Tales; Collecting Taxidermy in Victorian Britain', and takes place on Thursday 6th June at 6.30pm.
The kakapo is the world's largest parrott and is critically endangered, with only around 126 individuals surviving on small island sanctuaries of New Zealand.
Gloucester City Museum will have a kakapo specimen on display at the City Museum between 9th May and 2nd July.
Tickets for this special talk are available to purchase online through the Guildhall box office by following this link here|, or telephoning the Guildhall box office on (01452) 503050.
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To download the current 'What's On' guide which includes a list of all events scheduled at the Museums until the end of April, click on the 'Download brochure' link in the left hand navigation bar.
If you would like to contact us please follow the 'Contact Us' link in the navigation bar on the left.
We look forward to seeing you at the City and Folk Museums soon.