IN A MOVE designed to capitalise upon its success in delivering colour education and knowledge, the Bradford-based Colour Museum, owned and managed by educational charity the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC), has decided to focus exclusively on workshops and colour-related activities for schools and groups.
As a result, the Colour Museum is no longer open to casual visitors and has been re-named the Colour Experience in line with its educational Colour Experience website launched in 2005 which is currently logging over 500,000 visitors a year.
Comments curator Graham Alcock, 'The museum has enjoyed considerable success in providing a variety of workshops for schools from all over the country. We have therefore decided to concentrate our resources in order to meet this growing need.'
In addition to continuing with its programme of talks and workshops on many aspects of colour, the Society is now developing a series of initiatives designed to take the message about colour to teachers and other key educational groups.
One recent example is the specialist workshop devised and delivered for the UK Museums, Libraries and Archives Council at the University of Bradford on the subject of natural dyeing.
The existing gallery space is currently being converted to a layout more suitable to its new role. It includes the creation of a Perkin Suite named in honour of Sir William Henry Perkin, a former president of the Society.
In 1856, at the age of 18, Perkin discovered the first synthetic dye and is credited with founding the modern chemical industry.
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