British Association of Friends of Museums - The Robert Logan Award Winner 2007

THE ROBERT LOGAN AWARD WINNER 2007 - LUCY PRICE

The British Association of Friends of Museums and the Association of Independent Museums Robert Logan Award, judged by Mark Taylor Director of the Museums Association, is presented to a young person working in the heritage sector.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2007 Award is Lucy Price. Lucy wins a cash prize of £500 and an invitation to take part as one of the panel of speakers at both the BAFM and the AIM conferences, giving her the opportunity to meet a range of people who work in and support museums and the wider heritage sector.

Lucy Price grew up on Dartmoor in Devon, went to school in Okehampton and, after taking a BA in History at UWE, Bristol, completed an MSc at Cardiff University in Care of Collections. In June 2002 Lucy began working as a Preventive Conservator for Historic Royal Palaces, based at Kensington Palace and also working at Hampton Court, the Tower of London and Kew Palace.

In August 2004, she joined the London Fire Brigade Museum as an Assistant Curator, and since June 2007 has been Curator in charge of the museum temporarily as her colleague is away on maternity leave. The role is very varied, from running school visits and other group tours, research into brigade history and service records, cataloguing, preventive conservation and environmental monitoring, and of course caring for the many artefacts that make up the museum's unique collection. As there are only two full time members of staff, the work of the nine volunteers is essential to the running of the museum.

The London Fire Brigade Museum is a small museum in Southwark which houses a unique collection. Beginning with the 1666 Great Fire of London, right through to WWII and the Blitz, and the role that the LFB has today, it tells the story of how London came to have a fire brigade in the city, and how it has developed over the years. Housed in the home of a former Chief Officer, the brigade museum has cared for a collection since the 1960's; in the 1990's the collection was opened to the public for the first time. The museum was initially staffed by ex-fire-fighters, and for the last eight years, the museum has employed qualified museum professionals.