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The Guardian is looking for families to choose the winner of our Family Friendly Museum award 2010 – could it be yours?
Beningbrough Hall Museum and Gardens, York, one of this year’s family-friendly finalists
Smelly, dirty, messy, noisy, tasty. Those are the common characteristics of the six museums on the shortlist for this year’s Guardian FamilyFriendly Museum Award, announced today. From the Highland Folk Museum in Inverness-shire, to St Nicholas Priory in Exeter, they provide sensual, hands-on experiences from which families emerge not only wiser, but also grubbier.
At Beningbrough Hall, an 18th- century red brick mansion in York, hands get all sticky from cooking edible insects. St Nicholas Priory, a Tudor town house in Exeter, asks visitors to help clean up, scrubbing pewter plates with ground eggshells. The Herbert Museum in Coventry is proud of its pong; it asks visitors, “What did a medieval toilet smell like? Sniff here to find out.” At the Highland Folk Museum, visitors can find chickens and ducks running around loose.
The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award, run in conjunction with the Kids in Museums charity, is the biggest museum award in Britain. … Continue Reading
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