Museums At Night 2014

Bellarmine Jar

Win Grayson Perry for Soho!

Yes, we are very proud to have been chosen as finalists in this years Connect 10/ Museums At Night Competition to Win artist Grayson Perry for Soho!

Our event on Thursday 16th May will centre around the museums oldest object a 16th/17th Century Bellarmine Jar, a magical artefact. 

Our event "A Pot To Wishin' "  Will bring together folk art, reinvent the time capsule and possibly break the mould for future generations. Surprises lie in store throughout the day.

The evening section of our programme will be held at Soho's newest members Club The House Of St Barnabas where Grayson will bring some of his own magic to the proceedings. 

Above all it will include the Soho community.
We would like your support in bringing Grayson to Soho.
Thank you. The public vote is open until 5pm Tuesday 28th January. 

Link To Vote Here

Follow us on twitter @TheMuseumOfSoho The twitter hashtag is #MatN2014: if you’re tweeting about this, we’ll do our best to retweet you.

The Museum of Soho, or mosoho as it is known locally, is a community based virtual museum with a small collection housed in the clock room of St Anne’s Tower and a touch screen in Sherwood Street.  Museum volunteers are well known for assisting academics, authors, artists and researchers from all over the world with projects and questions about Soho’s history.

Museums at Night is the annual after-hours festival of arts, culture and heritage and takes place over the weekend of Thursday 15 –Saturday 17 May. 

The Connect 10 competition gives organisations the chance to win a top artist for their Museums at Night event.

MUSEUMS AT NIGHT 2014 EVENT | "A POT TO WISHIN'" | MAY 17 2014. | The House Of St Barnabas. 

Record Store Day 2013 Saturday April 20th

Record Store Day 2013

What A Great Day!

We had plenty of interest in Soho's rich, musical heritage, our poster on "The Sound History of Soho" was well received although we couldn't do it real justice as it would need a dozen posters to cover this area, but I think we gave people a flavour of the variety and longevity of music in Soho.

 

Setting Up Shop

mo's Chair

The Smoke Fairies Outside Ronnies

Berwick Street was vibrant and is still home to many Indie Record Stores, it was wonderful again to see the market packed with people on a sunny day, enjoying the beats and banter coming from the stores and stalls.Live music came courtesy of Berwick St London / Sister Ray record store and DJing at Sounds of The Universe. and Black Market Music

mosoho put on "The Fleas"

The Fleas

A fabulous Ukulele Troupe who wowed the audience with their own brand of urbanism and all round, smiles from a very happy crowd

We had veterans of " Dobells Record store Jazz, Blues and Folk" A legendary record shop That once existed at 77 Charing Cross Rd at our stall.

They currently have an exhibition on at CHELSEA space and is well worth a visit with talks and open decks continuing until 18.05.13

Robin Hitchcock not playing our theme tune @ Oliver Spencer Menswear Berwick St:

Robyn Hitchcock in Berwick Street

The whole point of the day is to celebrate music and the Indie record stores that have been such a big, part of peoples lives "They're more like clubs, where you can meet people with the same passion".

The Crowd

Frank Turner

mosoho would like to see more plaques highlighting our past or as BBC Radio 6 music, put it "middle class tagging" The Colony Room in Dean St, should certainly be considered and also Chanot's Violin Shop at 157 Wardour Street,there is certainly no shortage of contenders and we will continue to campaign for this.

Matthew E White

Colin Newman of Wire

Expect to see three more mosoho heritage, panels going up this Summer on the Crossrail hoardings in Soho Square  to compliment our existing panel on Mrs Cornelys. PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF SISTERIS