The Story Museum in 2011
a year to remember - ten reasons to be cheerful!
1. Arts Council England awarded us £200,000 from its Grants for the Arts programme. We have now also raised one third of the £10m we need to open in 2014.
2. We appointed award winning architects Purcell Miller Tritton.
3. We received funding from SHINE and The Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts – enabling us to extend our pioneering outreach work into Oxfordshire secondary schools and primary schools in London.
4. Our storytelling schools are showing improved SATS and Ofsted results.
5. 
Michael Rosen became our curator of stories, joining artist in residence Ted Dewan.
6. More than 15,000 people were touched by The Story Museum, through events, outreach and visits to our building. Our website received more than 27,000 visitors.
7. We coordinated our fourth Alice Day, now a popular annual celebration, with more than 20 cultural partners and 10,000 visitors.
8. Visitors also filled our courtyard and Story Exchange for a number of other events, including Open Doors and Christmas Light Night.
9. We strengthened our academic links, providing a temporary home for Oxford University’s historic . At Oxford Brookes University, architectural students are enthusiastically helping us with design projects.
10. We became a Happy Museum, one of only six museums in the country to receive this award.
...and in 2012
We are planning some exciting story happenings, from Alice anniversary adventures to mysterious Other Worlds , a programme of story events, talks and workshops – and a weird and wonderful weaving machine… please come and visit our atmospheric and dilapidated building before major transformation work begins in 2013.
