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The first of our three new online programmes is live on the Collections page of our website: Life in the living room 1600-2000. This, along with Walk through a Victorian House and Search the Collections, which will follow later this month, will provide visitors with innovative new ways to access our collections.
This beautifully-illustrated new guidebook has just been published and provides the perfect introduction to the Geffrye's period rooms, its collections, and its herb and period gardens. It is available from the museum bookshop.
The Geffrye's maiolica plate has been featured on the side of a London bus to help promote the cultural diversity of London's many independent museums. The London Museum Hub has wrapped the London bus to raise awareness of the capital's non-national museums.
The bus will travel across central London and the West End until March 2009, showcasing images of historic artefacts and reminding visitors of the richness of London's cultural heritage.
Artist Maxine Sutton recently exhibited new embroidered textiles inspired by the Geffrye Museum that make a fascinating study on domestic rituals, narratives and historic home-crafts.
The work was on display from 7 - 31 May at Craft Central, 33-35 St John's Square, London EC1 4DS.
A group of London Mayors visited the Geffrye on 22 April as part of a day's event hosted by the Speaker of Hackney, Cllr Faizullah Khan. The Director, David Dewing, welcomed the group and provided an introductory talk about the museum and its history. Following a walk through the museum and period gardens they were taken on a tour of the restored historic almshouse before enjoying lunch in the museum restaurant. The photograph shows the Mayors, Director, David Dewing, the Speaker of Hackney, and pupils from West Green Primary School.
The Geffrye Education team collecting their award
The Geffrye Education team are delighted to have been awarded a Sandford Award from the Heritage Education Trust, who made the following assessment:
‘At the Geffrye Museum each recreated living space has its own theatricality, resembling a set on which the audience's imagination casts an eye on the past. The education team enables children to break down the 'fourth wall' of each set studied, by allowing children to deduce for themselves how the English middle-classes live and used to live. Embedded within the Geffrye Museum's education programme is the responsibility of staying true to an ethos that dates back to the 1930s. A highly skilled and dedicated education team perform the role of custodians of this ethos, whilst also being willing to adapt, to listen and to lead. The Geffrye Museum appears not to reach out to its community, it achieves more than that, being an integral, vital, quintessentially English institution within the rich and diverse community it dutifully serves.’
Follow this link for more information on Learning at the Geffrye Museum.
The Geffrye Museum's catalogue, Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English, Middle Class, Urban Domestic Spaces 1914-60, was short-listed along side twenty-four other exhibition catalogues, for The Art Newspaper & AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award 2007. Following the awards ceremony on 22 November at the Tate, we are delighted to announce that we were awarded joint runner-up. For more information about this important award please follow this link:
Axa Award 2007
Please click on this link to find out more about Axa Art.
Beacon Press with parent company Pureprint Group, (the print company behind our Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English, Middle Class, Urban Domestic Spaces 1914-60), have won, for the second time, the Fine Art Printer of the Year Award at the 2007 PrintWeek Awards. The books which made up their winning entry were:
Beacon Press were also recognised with a Commendation for their entries in the Book category, which included the two-volume set Gilbert & George Complete Pictures and the Elizabeth Peyton book.
The London Green Corners 2007 Award was presented to the Geffrye Museum Gardens on 20 November for brightening London life and enriching the city's biodiversity.
The Geffrye Musem received Full Accreditation in May 2007. Awarded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, (MLA), Full Accreditation demonstrates that the museum meets the minimum standards in museum management, visitor facilities, user services and collections care. The Accreditation scheme, originally established as Museum Registration in 1988, has helped museums raise standards throughout the UK. As public expectations of museums grows, the scheme ensures that accredited museums reach or surpass these standards and remain accessible and accountable to present and future generations of visitors.
On Thursday 23 November, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, The Rt Hon Tessa Jowell, officially opened the At Home project in front of an invited crowd of 250 guests, including representatives from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the London museums sector. The refurbished period rooms and new interpretive galleries were well received by those attending.
The project has also attracted positive comments from both new and regular visitors.
For more information about the At Home project, please read Press Release - At Home in London, 1600 - 1800.
To commemorate the bicentenary of this 1805 watercolour of the buildings that now house the Geffrye Museum, the Friends of the Geffrye offer for sale a lithographic print from the original in a limited edition of 100. The print is made by kind permission of the Ironmongers' Company. Proceeds from the sale will be donated to the museum to help fund its exhibition and education programme.
Edition: 100, numbered and stamped
Size: 41 x 69.5cm
Printed in 8 colours on 300gsm Somerset Velvet by Curwen Chilford Prints, Linton, nr Cambridge.
Price: £120.00 + postage and packing
Special price to Friends of the Geffrye Museum: £100.00 + postage and packing
If you have any queries about the print please ring: Brenda Herbert on 020 7254 4379.
