A Day at The Museum

Yesterday, I attended the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign’s 2009 Young Pavement Artists Competition (YPAC) Awards Ceremony at the Natural History Museum w/ Mum and Sarah.

Upon arrival, we went to a reception we mingled for a while and around 14:00 we into the theatre for actual awards ceremony to see the children who were the runner-ups and winners in each category received their prizes. It was so inspiring to see all the children’s amazing artwork!

Guess who was also awarding the children their prizes? Well, it was Chico of the “It’s Chico Time” fame! He is so funny and I met him afterwards as well when Mum was chatting him up…

About 40-45 minutes later, we went back to the reception area to have tea and cake and chat some more. Then at 16:30 the runner-ups and winners were given an exclusive tour of the museum, and I was offered to go on the tour too on behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign; so Mum, Sarah and me followed the brilliant Matt (Learning Operations Manager at the Museum), who gave an excellent Museum Tour. The NHM was exclusively closed for us; he showed us all the cool parts of the Museum and he took us to a special room that not many know b/c it’s hidden where the had all kinds unique, interesting items that we could touch and explore – from fossils to bones and to butterflies to a taxidermy fox. The friendly Guido was our lovely museum guide; he showed me (and the me touch) all kinds cool items including a dried starfish, a head of a crocodile, a mold of a dinosaur’s teeth, Baleen from a Sperm Whale and so much more… It was just utterly amazing and I definitely plan to go back!

All in all, it was a wicked day that I really enjoyed. Plus, it was very nice to meet old and new friends from the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign – Phil (Chief Executive), Adam (Designer), Abby (Director of Marketing and Communications), Sally (Marketing and Communications Manager), Eleanor (Web Manager), Laura (Volunteering Recruitment Manager) and twins Laura and Judith (Trailblazers National Ambassadors) – and others such as Jo (from the tictoc , the company that designed and manages our websites) and more interesting people at the ceremony. YPAC was a well dog’s bollocks of an experience that I’ll never forget…