Art Fund, the UK’s national charity for art, has announced the five museums that have been selected as finalists for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024, the world’s largest museum prize.
30 April 2024
The Burrell Collection has been announced as the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023 winner. Duncan Dornan, Head of Museums and Collections for Glasgow Life
12 July 2023
Grace Ndiritu Wins Jarman Award 2022 – £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year Award – 2023 Turner Prize Towner Eastbourne Jury Announced
23 November 2022
Frida Kahlo Last Self-Portrait Auctioned – Van Gogh And Frans Hals: X-Con Goes On Trial – Firstsite Selected Art Fund Museum of the Year
23 September 2021
Liverpool Loses UNESCO World Heritage Status – National Gallery To Buy Sir Thomas Lawrence The Red Boy – Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 Shortlist
22 July 2021
The Art Fund, the Uk’s largest arts charity have announced the biggest prize for museums in the world with a special edition of The Museum of the Year Award
12 October 2020
The Art Fund has announced the five museums which have been selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019, the world’s most prestigious museum prize.
25 April 2019
Arts Minister Michael Ellis has launched a £20 million fund aimed at helping culture, heritage and the creative industries to benefit towns and cities across England.
21 June 2018
Art Fund has announced their shortlist of five UK museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018, the world’s largest and most prestigious prize for museums.
1 May 2018
Sir Edwin Landseer’s ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ (c. 1851) at National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, was announced today as winner of the Art Fund Work of 2017.
13 December 2017
The Hepworth Wakefield has won this year’s Museum of The Year Award. The gallery located in West Yorkshire has beaten Tate Modern, the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Suffolk. The Art Fund aims to reward an institution that has shown “exceptional imagination, innovation, and achievement across the preceding 12 months”.
6 July 2017
The £300,000 New Collecting Award programme winners have been announced by the Art Fund. The award invests in the development of promising curators. The successful projects include building a collection of cartographic material about forced migration to increasing the number of works by female artists.
7 April 2017
After a record-breaking year, the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum has been named the Museum of the Year 2016. The judges… Read More
6 July 2016
An appeal to save a masterpiece of the English Renaissance for the Nation has been launched jointly by the Art Fund… Read More
24 May 2016
The five museums shortlisted for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year 2016 prize has been announced. The annual prize is awarded… Read More
30 April 2016
A knowledge of Art has become such a must have attribute that half of singletons interviewed in a survey by… Read More
8 October 2015
The Art Fund has announced that applications are open for a second phase of the New Collecting Awards, the charity’s landmark… Read More
27 July 2015
The Art Fund has launched Art Miles, a new fundraising initiative to get members of the public walking to raise… Read More
15 January 2015
The YBA Artist Michael Landy has been selected as a judge for this years £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the… Read More
15 December 2014
One of the worlds most important industrial archive, the Wedgwood Collection has been saved for the nation after a public… Read More
3 October 2014
The Wedgwood Museum, which entered administration in 2010, after the collapse of the iconic firm, has launched a public appeal… Read More
3 September 2014
The £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014 has been awarded to Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The announcement… Read More
11 July 2014
The Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery which opened its doors in 1968, is one of the world’s most adventurous and innovative… Read More
26 April 2014
The Art Fund have launched a new fundraising initiative that encourages art lovers to create edible masterpieces – all funds… Read More
20 February 2014
Chair of the Tate, Lord Browne of Madingley recently spoke at the Royal Society of Arts arguing we need to… Read More
22 July 2013
The inaugural winners of their new Testing Media initiative, which enables institutions across the UK to acquire contemporary artworks in… Read More
3 May 2013
The Art Fund have announced the ten museums in the running for the UK’s largest arts prize, the £100,000 Art… Read More
2 April 2013
The Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries has renamed the prize ‘Museum of The Year’ and changed its criteria… Read More
19 December 2012
Rachel Whiteread’s gilded bronze frieze, ‘Tree of Life’ has been voted the nation’s favourite work of art supported by the… Read More
16 December 2012
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has without success pleaded with Mayor Lutfur Rahman, to reverse the decision to sell… Read More
2 December 2012
The public has shown major support for the joint appeal by the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Art Fund to secure… Read More
19 September 2012
The Art Fund have announced today that Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum has won this year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize… Read More
20 June 2012
