The History and Collections of the Horniman Museum
A Talk by Finbarr Whooley – 7.45pm on Tuesday April 29 at the Golden Lion
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21 August – Join SEE3 to Celebrate One Year
Horniman Museum – Wednesday 21 August
Horniman Museum shortlisted for Museum of the Year Award
Museum is one of ten finalists in Art Fund prize for Museum of the Year 2013
From Alhambra to Marrakech
Music concert at Horniman Museum – Wednesday July 18 at 7 pm
Horniman Museum: hands-on family workshops
Free event, every Saturday 11.45 am and 1 pm
Tales from the Horniman: A World of Stories
Free events – every Sunday, 2.25 pm and 3.30 pm
Horniman Museum: Busy Bees
Free event, Wednesday and Friday, 10.30 am. 11.15 am and 12 noon
Music at Hornimans – Thursday August 25
Hear prize-winning musicians Ibi Aziz and Masumi Yamatoto perform in the Horniman conservatory
John Irving and Jane Booth – Art of Harmony Concert, Horniman Thursday June 30, 7pm
World class musicians John Irving and Jane Booth perform Sonatas and Duos for clarinet and fortepiano
Horniman Museum central government grant scrapped. Museum becomes responsibility of “local community”
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has announced that from 2015, eight museums including Horniman are to lose their government grant. The department has said that these museum are “local” not national museums and should therefore find suitable sponsors to ensure a sustainable future or be supported by local councils.
In a statement, a DCMS spokesperson confirmed that the funding of all its sponsored museums was secure until the end of 2014-15. “We are now exploring whether the department’s non-national museums may be more effectively sponsored through other bodies or programmes in the longer term. As part of the transfer arrangements the department will seek to be satisfied that new sponsors can offer a sustainable future for these museums.”
One of the museums on the list, the People’s History Museum in Manchester, has said that it may have to abandon its policy of free entry from 2015 as a result of these cuts.
The eight museums on the list are: Horniman, the Geffrye Museum, Museum of Science and Industry Manchester, the National Football Museum, the Tyne and Wear Museums, the Design Museum, the People’s History Museum and the National Coal Mining Museum.