The 1984 Museum of the Year Awards with Sue
Jay Museums are livelier and more attractive places than they were. As interest in the past continues to grow more of them are visited more often. New museums open at a rate of one a fortnight and established museums redesign existing collections.
The Museum of the Year Awards recognise the best of the innovators new and old, large and small.
In the first of four programmes Sue Jay and Kenneth Hudson visit the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to look at two recently opened galleries-of archaeology and Islamic ceramics - which this year received the judges' special commendation, and Dr Neil Cossons explains how museums have changed radically in recent years to meet the needs of a public with more time to stand and stare.
The Museum of the Year Awards are organised by NATIONAL HERITAGE in conjunction with THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Lighting MAURICE GARMAN
Cameraman ALASTAIR MITCHELL Videotape editor ROY DEMERY Production MARTIN L. BELL
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