New Walk Museum & Art Gallery wins Best Exhibition award!
The winners of the inaugural Renaissance East Midlands Regional Heritage Awards were announced last night at an awards ceremony at Kelham Hall, Newark with New Walk Museum & Art Gallery winning the Best Exhibition Award for the 'A Journey Out of Darkness' exhibition.
The 'A Journey Out of Darkness' exhibition celebrated the 65th Anniversary of the 'Mid-European Art' exhibition at the museum and the beginning of Leicester's Internationally acclaimed collection of German Expressionist Art.
The popular and critically acclaimed exhibition at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery had over 40,000 visitors during its exhibition run from 31st October 2009 – 3rd May 2010.
For more details on the exhibition and the collection visit:
www.leicester.gov.uk/germanexpressionist
Claire Browne, Regional Museums Development Network Manager and the co-ordinator for the Awards, said:
“We are delighted to present the very first Regional Heritage Awards in the East Midlands. These museums and heritage centres make a real difference to the communities they serve and this has been a wonderful opportunity to celebrate their excellence. The standard was extremely high and all finalists and winners deserve high praise for the work they do and its impact across the East Midlands.”
The full list of 2010 winners are:
Best Event 2010
Winner: The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne for The Canal Village at War
Best Exhibition 2010
Winner: New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester for A Journey Out of Darkness
Inspiration Award for Best Special Project 2010
Winner: Northampton Museum and Art Gallery for Strut
Work with Children and Young People 2010
Joint winners: Snibston Discovery Museum for Museum Club for Young People
and Naseby Battlefield for The Sounds of Naseby Battlefield
Collections Care and Development 2010
Winner: Nottingham City Museums and Galleries for The John Player's Project
Best Visitor Experience 2010
Winner: Bosworth Battlefield
Work with Volunteers 2010
Winner: Church Farm Museum, Skegness
Judges Special Award 2010
Winners: Long Whatton History Society and
Worcester and Sherwood Foresters Regimental Collections
The excellent work of museums and heritage collections throughout the East Midlands was celebrated at the event with Creswell Crags being awarded the coveted Museum of the Year.
Museum of the Year 2010
Winner: Creswell Crags
