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Museums Celebrate Art Fund Prize Nomination with “Love Your Museum”

William Blake - Hecate circa 1795 - Colour print finished in ink and watercolour on paper, 439 x 581 mm Presented by W. Graham Robertson 1939

LONDON.- Museums and galleries long-listed
for the
Art Fund Prize will be hosting special events over Love Your Museum
Weekend,
which takes on Saturday 10  April and Sunday 11 April weekend.Helping
Henry
VIII with his wedding preparations, Raku firing and playing virological
cluedo
are just some of the activities and events planned for Love Your Museum
Weekend
2010.
The weekend will be hosted by institutions nominated for
this
year’s Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries, an award for excellence
and
innovation in UK museums. On Saturday 10 April at 11.30am, for the very
first
time, six of the long-listed institutions will embark on a national
simultaneous
‘I love my museum’ cheer.