Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award launched

What's the most family friendly museum in Britain?

Kids in Museums has teamed up with the Telegraph newspaper for the Family Friendly Museum Award to search out the most family friendly museum in Britain.

Poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen has launched the Award in The Sunday Telegraph. Read why museums are important to him and his family here.

‘I'm a kind of museum glutton,' says Michael Rosen. ‘I only need a hint from my children that they're studying the Ancient Greeks, and we're off down to the British Museum with notebooks and pencils drawing the Elgin Marbles.'

Children's authors Jacqueline Wilson, Judith Kerr and Philip Pullman have also pledged their support to the Award.

The Family Friendly Museum Award is the biggest museum award in Britain and the only one judged by families. It seeks out the best museum for families.

Perhaps somewhere that entrances toddlers by dressing up as Henry VIII, as if he were in a Holbein painting? Perhaps it gives out family backpacks with pens, trails and jigsaws of medieval gold coins in the collection? Or where a gallery assistant approaches a ten year old, offering to explain how the washing mangle worked and giving it a turn? There could be a workshop for teenagers, letting them Warholize their own image in the pop art gallery?

Now it's your visitors' chance to say which museum welcomes families most. It could be a one-room gallery with a few rare objects or a mighty museum stuffed with national treasures. It just has to be especially welcoming to families. They just have to tell us why they want it to win the Family Friendly Museum Award.

How to make a nomination:

Anyone can make a nomination - families, children, visitors, volunteers and staff in museums, as well as museums themselves. Just let us know why the museum is the most family friendly and deserves to win:

Email: award@kidsinmuseums.org.uk
Post: Family Friendly Museum Award
Kids in Museums
49-51 East Road
London N1 6AH

Nominations for the Award close on 2 December 2011.

Find out more about the Family Friendly Museum Award at our website.