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Congratulations Ella and Jorja!
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The prize giving ceremony for the Gloucester Museums 'Young Designers' competition took place recently.
Huge congratulations to Ella and Jorja-Anne, who were presented with their trophies by City Council leader Paul James.
Their winning posters will feature in this summer's marketing for the upcoming Museums Detectives Club, a new club for primary school children.
A massive well done to all schools, teachers and students involved, if this year's entries were anything to go by, next year's competition will have to pull out all the stops to top this year's!
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MUSEUMS AT NIGHT EVENTS - MAY 2013
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE ONLINE!
This year's Museums at Night 'Connect10' competition saw the City and Folk Museums both in the final 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 were extremely proud to have done so well.
Thank you to everyone who voted, we very much appreciate your support. For more information about the competition and what the City and Folk Museums have planned for the 'Museums at Night' festival in May, please click here|.
Tickets for the special events in May are now available to purchase through the Gloucester Guildhall box office, and can be purchased online by following the link above, you will also find lots more details about each event, so get yours in soon - there aren't many and once they're gone there's no way back.
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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 followingthis 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.