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WEDGWOOD MUSEUM SHORTLISTED FOR ART FUND PRIZE It is such an honour for our tiny team of trustees, staff, and extremely loyal volunteers for the Museum to be selected for the Art Fund Prize short list, and for us to champion the Midlands in this prestigious national award. All of us at the Wedgwood Museum are over the moon at the news. It’s terrific recognition of nine year’s work and also such good news for Stoke on Trent- ‘The Potteries’- the home of Josiah Wedgwood. We’re especially pleased that this year, for the first time, members of the public will be able to support the museum of their choice via an online poll. YOU can have a say in who wins. To register your vote please follow this link: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/poll/2009/may/05/art-fund- britains-best- museums You may also like to see the Guardian’s coverage of the short list announcement at: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/06/wedgwood- museum-art-fund-prize-shortlist - or listen again to the short list announcement on Radio 4 using the BBC iPlayer at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k3kvq/Front_Row_05_05_2 009/ For more information on The Wedgwood Museum please visit our website at www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk Art Fund members have free entry to the Wedgwood Museum - and we welcome everyone to come to experience the new galleries which only opened in October 2008. Indeed, whichever of the shortlisted museums and galleries you visit we are sure you'll have a fantastic time. The Wedgwood Museum Trust is a charity and is completely independent of WWRD Holdings Ltd. The Wedgwood Museum has benefitted from support from The Art Fund when it acquired the wonderful portrait of John Flaxman Jnr - one of Wedgwood's most-famous designers - by the artist John Jackson which now hangs in the new museum's galleries. George Stonier Gaye Blake Roberts Chairman of The Wedgwood Museum Trust Museum Director Note – For images of the Museum please contact: [log in to unmask] The Wedgwood Museum Wedgwood Drive Barlaston Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. ST12 9ER. Tel: +44 (0)1782 371900 The Art Fund is the UK's leading independent art charity. It offers grants to help UK museums and galleries enrich their collections; campaigns on behalf of museums their visitors; and promotes the enjoyment of art. It is entirely funded from public donations and has 80,000 members. Since 1903 the charity has helped museums and galleries all over the UK secure 860,000 works of art for their collections. Recent achievements include: helping secure Anthony d'Offay's collection, ARTIST ROOMS, for Tate and National Galleries of Scotland in February 2008 with a grant of £1million; putting together a unique funding package to ensure Dumfries House in Ayrshire and its contents were secured intact for the nation in July 2007; running the ‘Buy a Brushstroke' public appeal which raised over £500,000 to keep Turner's Blue Rigi watercolour in the UK, and helping to save Rubens' sketch for the ceiling at Banqueting House, Whitehall, for Tate in October 2008 with a grant of £600,000. Independent of government, The Art Fund is uniquely placed to campaign on behalf of public collections across the UK. Visit the charity's website at www.artfund.org www.artfund.org