Manchester Art Gallery Long-Listed for The Guardian's Family Friendly Award

Congratulations to All About Audiences Subscribers, Manchester Art Gallery who have been long-listed for The Guardian's Family Friendly Award.

From the tip of Scotland to the Southwest of England, the 20 museums making it to the Guardian Family Friendly Award longlist all share one thing - they go that extra mile to welcome families.

Here is the full list:

• Abbey House Museum, Leeds
• At-Bristol
• Corinium Museum, Cirencester
• Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire
• Geffrye Museum, London 
• Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, Norfolk
• Hands on History, Hull
• Haslemere Educational Museum, Essex
• Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore
• Horniman Museum, London
• Kilmartin House Museum, Argyll
• The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey
• Manchester Art Gallery
• Mansfield Museum, Nottinghamshire
• Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk
• Sulgrave Manor, Banbury, Oxfordshire
• The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
• Thinktank, Birmingham Science Centre
• Woodhorn Museum and Archive, Northumberland

What the experts (the visitors!) have said about Manchester Art Gallery:

‘I always love my time at the gallery and so do my mum and brother. These are the things we have enjoyed doing: wax work, clay-like stuff, engraving, sawdust pictures. My brother likes: the engraver, family tree and themed collages. My mum likes: body part casts and printing.’

‘My family and I have enjoyed many hours in the various rooms. We have danced, painted plates, built robots, constructed transportation devices, drawn all over the walls and much more.’

Have you been to Manchester Art Gallery? You can show your support here: http://www.kidsinmuseums.org.uk/1/discuss/

What happens next?

A panel of leaders in the museum world, chaired by Jenny Abramsky, Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, will draw up a shortlist. This shortlist will be anonymously roadtested by families. It’s families who nominate the museums, and it’s families who decide the winner. The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award - the biggest award in Britain - is the only award to be judged by visitors.

Find out more about the Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award at www.kidsinmuseums.org.uk/awards.