Positive Bradford Day
The Peace Museum will be participating in the very first Positive Bradford Day on Wednesday, 28 September 2011.
From noon onwards, Centenary Square , the Urban Park and Tyrrell Street will become a giant showcase for all that’s good about Bradford. There’ll be a spectacular, varied programme of music, dancing, fashion shows, sports coaching, crisp tasting, cheerleading, record breaking and great displays to interest just about everybody. Better still, it will all be FREE! (more…)
Object of the Week
September 12th was harvest full moon, which means the season for harvest festivals has started. This week’s Object of the Week is remembering the fact that the world needs food, not weapons. (more…)
The Peace Museum featured on Everyman Radio
The Peace Museum’s curator, Julie Obermeyer, was recently interviewed about the museum by Everyman Radio, an internet radio station which aims to bring a light-hearted yet realistic view of the world with alternative music, discussions on the latest events and a mix of comedy, poetry, readings, health, etc.
The museum was contacted because programmers at the radio station wanted to issue a podcast with a peace perspective in response to the riots in London and other areas of England in August 2011.
Listen to the interview on Podcast #6, “Peaceful Protest” here. The Peace Museum is featured as the fourth item in the programme at about 1:06 hours into the podcast.
Object of the Week
The tenth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks in the USA is on Sunday. So our Object of the Week this week is associated with improving relations on a national level. (more…)
The Peace Museum’s paintings featured on new BBC ‘Your Paintings’ website
Five paintings in The Peace Museum’s collection are featured on the new BBC website ‘Your Paintings‘, which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them.
- ‘Your Paintings’ is a joint initiative between the BBC, the Public Catalogue Foundation (a registered charity) and participating collections and museums from across the UK. In all, the national collection amounts to some 200,000 works, held in 3,000 galleries, museums, libraries and public institutions all over the country, making it probably one of the lagest and most diverse collections of paintings in the world.
The ‘Your Paintings’ website features sections made by well known artists, historians and celebrities and the public are encouraged to take part in the development of the project by tagging works and helping to classify paintings as they are uploaded to the website until the end of 2012. This tagging wil allow future users to do their own searches – these could range from a simple object search such as for rivers, racing cars, costume or cats to deeper research to look for places, people, styles and movements.
New works and more functionality will be added to the site as the project evolves. As the project develops the site will pesent a body of knowledge and learning resources that will give everyone the opportunity to discover the richness and diversity of the great works of art in public ownership.
View the five paintings from The Peace Museum’s collection that are featured on the Your Paintings website here.
Object of the Week
Since the holidays are finishing and schools are beginning their Autumn terms, our Object of the Week is focusing on education. (more…)
Object of the Week
The 27th August marks the 30th anniversary of the first march from Cardiff to Greenham Common in 1981. To celebrate this event our Object of the Week is a banner showing the route of that first march. The walk was 120 miles and around 40 walkers took part. It was planned by Ann Pettit and Karmen Cutler as a way of protesting against the decision of the British government to base 96 US cruise missiles at Greenham Common. The end of the walk on September 5th marked the start of the Greenham Common Peace Camp, which continued for 20 years.
Object of the Week
In the light of recent events around the country, it seems apt that our current Object of the Week is the Manningham Peace banner. The banner features the word “Peace” in multi-coloured lettering and was made by women in Bradford. They carried it through the streets during the Manningham riots of June 1995. The banner represents the beliefs of many that violence isn’t the answer.
Object of the week
As August 6th is Hiroshima Day and the anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped in 1945, it seems fitting that our first Object of the Week should be a Hiroshima banner. The Peace Museum has a lot in its collection relating to anti-nuclear activities and this banner is part of our anti-nuclear collection. It was made for CND and came into the collection in 2010.
We’re connected
You can now find The Peace Museum on the social networking websites Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Through these sites you can keep up to date about upcoming events and exhibitions and share news, information, updates, ideas, developments and special announcements.
We also encourage you to check out our blog, which we will be using with children, young people and adults to chronicle projects as they happen and to allow interaction with items from our collections using emerging media through Googledocs, Red Laser, QR codes and hand held learning.
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- New Object of the Week for the start of the Olympic torch relay on Saturday! http://t.co/aWwT4ToH
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