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The Chris Evans Breakfast Show: Museum of the Year

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22/06/2015

Museum of the Year

BBC Radio 2 - The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, Museum of the Year

Chris plays the first in a series of looks at the Museum of the Year finalists.

Chris plays the first in a series of looks at the Museum of the Year finalists, with Ken Bruce visiting Oxford's Natural History Museum.

Chris plays out the first of our Museum Of The Year finalist packages - ahead of the winning announcement. What did Ken Bruce discover at Oxford's Natural History Museum?

Each year the Art Fund host the Museum of the Year Awards with a transformative prize of £100,000.
For 2015, key Radio 2 daytime presenters visited the six shortlisted venues. 

Chris Evans went to the Imperial War Museum in London; Sara Cox visited Dunham Massey in Cheshire; Jo Whiley went to The MAC in Belfast; Simon Mayo went to the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester and and Jeremy Vine visited the Tower of London. They each recorded a short audio package about what they saw there. 

This week the packages will be played out across daytime Radio 2.

The network's support of Museum of the Year comes to a climax with a very special edition of Friday Night is Music Night: 'Friday Night at the Museum' - where curators from the six shortlisted museums will 'show and tell' some of their most interesting exhibits, and we will match them with appropriate music. 

On Thursday 2nd July the Director of the winning Museum of the Year will appear on the Chris Evans show.

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