Children in Museums Award Winner 2018
The Keppel Centre for Art Education National Gallery Singapore
‘With its free admission and mantra ‘Children first, parents second!’ the Keppel Centre is an excellent example of a dynamic 21st century education centre within an art gallery, introducing children to art at an early age while acknowledging the importance of lifelong learning.’
The exhibitions are constantly inspired by the permanent collections of the museum and encourage families to visit the National Gallery as well as the Keppel Centre. The involvement of local artists who are inspired by the museum collections, in collaboration with the dedicated education team, has led to the production of excellent, well designed exhibitions for younger visitors.
The Museum of Puppetry, Ljubljana, Slovenia received a Special Commendation for its strong commitment to make a collection of national relevance accessible to young visitors by encompassing both a multi-layered presentation, which shows the collection’s richness and the urgency of preservation as well as its great potential for learning and new ideas, targeted at different age-spans.
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Short-Listed Candidates 2018
Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Manuka (ACT), Australia
Museums Victoria – Science Works, Melbourne, Australia
LEGO House, Billund, Denmark
Junges Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
MUSE, Science Museum of Trento, Italy
EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Children’s Book Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Railway Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
National Gallery, Keppel Centre for Art Education, Singapore
Museum of Puppetry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Museum of Communication, Bern, Switzerland
Winnie-the-Pooh Exhibition and Family Learning programme, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK