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After a delay of a year due to covid, the preview and award presentation of the Maidstone Young Artist Award (MYAA) finally happened on 29 April. The competition runs bi-annually to help encourage the young artists of Kent and the surrounding areas and give them a chance to exhibit in a professional setting. This award is sponsored by MMF, who meet all the costs including prize money.

Thirty members and guests attended Fiona’s lively talk “Why Egypt Inspires the Modern Imagination” in the Museum Friends’ Shop in Fremlin Walk on April 7. A visit to Maidstone Museum, when she was very young, inspired Fiona Deal’s lifelong interest in classical and modern Egypt.

MMF is participating in this Easter Egg Hunt competition in Maidstone Town Centre.
It runs from April 2nd to 16th April.

There will be 20 eggs in various shop windows – and our Friends’ shop in Fremlin Walk will be one!.

“Entertaining and evocative.” That’s how one guest summed up MMF’s first folk concert. This was held during the evening of Thursday 3rd March It was standing room only in the Museum Friends’ Shop in Fremlin Walk when talented Kent Song Collective – Bob Kenward, John and Di Cullen – performed a wide range of songs about Kent and Maidstone.

A Design Challenge for Kent Schools. MMF – in partnership with Maidstone Museums – launches a competition aimed at Primary & Secondary Schools and pupils,

The challenge will require students, working as individuals or in a team, taking inspiration from objects in the Museum and developing a prototype product that could be sold in the Museum shop for £10 or less.

There was a packed audience of nearly 40 for the latest in the MMF series of monthly events in the Friends’ shop in Fremlin Walk. After refreshments, In a talk entitled “The Forgotten Symbols of Kent”, James Lloyd, M.A. Ph.D M.Litt, Archivist of the College of Arms, gave a detailed historic analysis of the many and varied heraldic styles that have represented Kent since Saxon times.