Press Release

The Tower Museum celebrates Museums at Night

Friday 2nd May

The Tower Museum will open its doors to celebrate Museums and Galleries Month from 16-18 May.

The Tower Museum will open for the International celebration of ‘Museums At Night’ on the 16 May between 6-10pm. A reduced rate of £1.00 admission will be on offer for the evening. It is an opportunity to see the ‘Story of Derry’ exhibition and ‘La Trinidad Valencera’ exhibition at a time when the Museum is usually closed to the public.

To celebrate Museums and Galleries Month admission fee to the Museum will be £1.00 all weekend. And especially for all the children out there the Tower Museum will also host an exclusive viewing of Nick Park’s Oscar® winning animation ‘The Wrong Trousers’ and Aardman’s ‘Shaun the Sheep’.

The exclusive viewings will be on Saturday 17 May at 5.30pm and on Sunday 18 May at 2pm. Admission to the films will be free but seats must be booked in advance. All bookings must be made with the receptionist at the Tower Museum on 028 71372411 or email museums@derrycity.gov.uk

Museums at Night weekend from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 May is part of Museums and Galleries Month (MGM) and coincides with the major European initiative Nuit des Musées on Saturday 17 May, supported by the Council of Europe. The Tower Museum is one of more than seventy museums and galleries taking part in this event in association with Aardman Animations.

Craig McGuicken, Curator with Derry City Council’s Museum and Heritage Service, said the Tower Museum was delighted to be part of the celebrations. “Museums and Galleries Month is the UK’s biggest celebration of museums and galleries, taking place from 1 to 31 May 2008. It brings together a diverse range of museums and galleries, offering a rich and entertaining programme of events, exhibitions and activities. We hope our involvement in Museums and Galleries Month 2008 will help us encourage more people to visit the facility and explore what we have to offer.”

The Wrong Trousers is a funny family film cash-strapped Wallace unknowingly takes in notorious criminal Feather McGraw as a lodger. Sly McGraw uses one of Wallace’s clever inventions, a pair of ‘Techno Trousers’, to force him to steal a priceless diamond from a local museum, before faithful Gromit comes to his rescue and helps him to return the diamond!

Further information about any of the events can be obtained by contacting the Museum directly. Tel 028 71372 411.

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Notes to Editors

Museums and Galleries Month is organised by The Campaign for Museums, a registered charity. Lloyd Grossman, Chairman of the Campaign for Museums and Caroline Dudley, Head of Museums and Archives, Hampshire County Council co-chairs MGM2008.

• Further information can be found on the website www.mgm.org.uk .
  
• Museums and Galleries Month is supported by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) through Renaissance and Arts Council England.
  
• For more information on Wrong Trouser Day and the Wallace and Gromit Children’s Foundation please visit: www.wallaceandgromitfoundation.org

Further press information can be obtained by contacting the Marketing and Communications Section, Derry City Council. Tel. 028 7137 6504.

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