River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames

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December 1999 Gulbenkian Award commendation (see press release) (New)
November 1999 Shortlisted for the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) 1999 awards
River & Rowing Museum is Top for 1999 - National Heritage Museum of the Year (see press release) (New)
July 1999 The Princess Royal visits the museum on 4 July 1999 (see press release)
The five ringed circus (an exhibition on Olympic rowing)
June 1999 One of ten Buildings of the Century selected by Channel 4, broadcast on 22 June 1999 (see press release)
May 1999 News Around the Clock - the Museum is participating in the 24 Hour Museum, launched during Museums Week (Website of the Week, 21 June 1999)
April 1999 Museum launches boat restoration fund
March 1999 Oar Inspired (an exhibition of prints by Annabel Eyres and sculptures by George Parsonage)
'Captivated' (Nadia Rice holds her audience spell-bound at the Henley River and Rowing Museum)
November 1998 Official Museum opening by Her Majesty the Queen
Last of the Desert Rats (Obituary of Olympic oarsman Ran Laurie whose winning boat is in the Museum)
Trireme Q & A (report of conference at the Museum)
August/September 1998 The Athenian Trireme: lessons from Olympias (announcement of conference at the Museum)
March 1998 £1m for Museum's rowing gallery
December 1997 Lottery denies Museum
October 1997 Museum collections take impressive shape
February 1997 What they say about the River and Rowing Museum

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For further information contact museum@rrm.co.uk

See also other articles in Regatta Online, Britain's rowing magazine.