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Gulbenkian Prize 2007 - 24 Hour Museum Reader Votes Pour In
By 24 Hour Museum Staff
05/02/2007
Image: a photograph of an atmospherically lit bowl
The enamelled silver prize bowl will be held by the Gulbenkian Prize winner for a year, but who will win the 24 Hour Museum People's Vote? Courtesy The Gulbenkian Prize.
The voting for the 2007 Readers' Poll for the Gulbenkian Prize is now closed
The biggest annual arts prize in the UK got underway on February 2 2007 when the £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize for Museums longlist was revealed. 24 Hour Museum is an enthusiastic supporter of the award and we wanted to know what you, the public think should be Museum of the Year.
So as the judges get on with visiting the ten museums on the longlist, we launched our own people’s vote, also on Febraury 2.
“When we announced the longlist a few days ago we began our peoples poll and we are amazed how many votes have already been cast – clearly people are really getting behind the vote,” said 24 Hour Museum Editor Jon Pratty.
At the time of writing, three museums have already pulled ahead in the poll, with The Warner Textile Archive at Braintree Museum, Weston Park Museum in Sheffield and the De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill hogging the majority of votes with 72, 65 and 64 respectively.
Not far behind is a chasing pack that includes the Women’s Library (44 and rising), Pallant House (22) and the Horniman Museum and Kew Palace with a respectable 20 apiece.
Image: a photograph of a large boat taken from the bow
ss Great Britain - Gulbenkian Museum of the Year 2006. © ss Great Britain
Votes are however coming through for all the other longlisted museums as we speak, and of course, it’s early days - anything might happen in a ten horse race.
“We’d like to know what real people all over the country think of these places - real people, real museum visitors,” added Jon. “It’s not all about national museums in the big cities, in my mind, it's all about what my local museum could do with £100,000 and what really touched me this year on my museum travels.”
Over the next two weeks we will be profiling all of the long-listed museums (in strict alphabetical order!) so there will be plenty of time to root for your museum of choice.
Voting will stay open until the prize winner is announced and we’ll also make sure the Gulbenkian judges get to hear who the public is voting for before they announce the shortlist of four. We’ll announce our People’s Favourite on May 23 2007 - the day before the announcement of the Prize. So get voting…
Click on one of the links below to vote for the longlisted museum you think should receive the £100,000 prize.
To vote for Braintree District Museum in Essex, click here.
To vote for Horniman Museum in London, click here.
To vote for Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow, click here.
To vote for Kew Palace in Surrey, click here.
To vote for Pallant House Gallery in West Sussex, click here.
To vote for Scotland & Medicine in Edinburgh, click here.
To vote for The Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art at the V&A in London, click here
To vote for Weston Park Museum in Sheffield, click here
To vote for The Women's Library in London click here
Braintree District Museum
Town Hall Centre Gallery, Market Place, Braintree, CM7 3YG, Essex, England
Open: Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm including Bank Holidays.
Horniman Museum & Gardens
Horniman Museum & Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ, England
Open: Open daily: 1030-1730
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AG, Strathclyde, Scotland
T: 0141 276 9599
Open: Monday to Thursday and Saturday 10am to 5pm, Friday and Sunday 11am to 5pm
Kew Palace and Queen Charlotte's Cottage
Kew Palace and Queen Charlotte's Cottage, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, TW9 3AB, Surrey, England
Open: Kew Palace reopens this year on 24 March 2007 and will be open daily until 28 October (inclusive). Open hours are 10:00 - 18:00 Tuesday to Sundays (last admission 1700) and 11:00 - 18:00 on Mondays (last admission 1700).
Queen Charlotte's Cottage is open on selected dates during the summer months, please see www.hrp.org.uk for more information.
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1TJ, West Sussex, England
Open: Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00
Thurs 10.00-20.00
Sun & Bank Holiday Monday 12.30-17.00
Closed: All Day Mondays
25,26 December, 1 January
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2RL, England
Open: Daily 1000-1745
Fri 1000-2200
Closed: 24-26 December
Weston Park Museum, Sheffield
Weston Park Museum, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, Leader House, Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 2LH, South Yorkshire, England
T: 0114 278 2655
Open: Mon- Sat 10am- 5pm
and Sun 11am-5pm
The Women's Library
The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT, England
Open: Exhibition Opening hours
Mon-Wed & Fri 9.30-17.30
Thurs 9.30-20.00
Sat 10.00-16.00
Sun Closed
Reading Room Opening hours
Mon Closed
Tues, Wed & Fri 9.30-17.00
Thurs 9.30-20.00
Sat 10.00-16.00
Sun Closed
Closed: The Women's Library, as part of London Metropolitan University, closes for brief periods over the Easter and Christmas holidays. It has an annual Closed Week for stocktaking and essential Library work. This is usually the first week of September. It is closed on Saturdays during the month of August. Please check our website for details.
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