Beamish Wins 2025 Museum Of The Year Securing £120K Prize
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, has been named Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025, securing the £120,000 prize—the largest of its kind in the global museum sector…
27 June 2025
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Art Fund Announces Shortlist For Museum Of The Year 2024
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
Van Gogh and Modigliani Sketches Discovered Reverso – Museum Of The Year £100k Winner Announced – Harsh New Fines For Damaging Public Sculptures In Britain
A previously unknown self-portrait by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh has been found on the back of another painting in the National Galleries of Scotland collection.
14 July 2022
Frida Kahlo Last Self-Portrait Auctioned – Van Gogh And Frans Hals Theft Trial – Firstsite Selected Art Fund Museum of the Year
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
Art Fund Announces £200,000 Museum of the Year Super Prize
On the eve of the re-opening of museums around the UK, from nationals Tate and the V&A to Turner Contemporary and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the UK’s largest arts charity, Art Fund, today launched a campaign for museums, with the announcement of plans for a special edition of Art Fund Museum of the Year and a week celebrating museums, running from 12 October 2020.
23 July 2020
St Fagans National Museum of History Wins Museum of the Year 2019
The Art Fund’s Museum of the Year 2019 has been awarded to St Fagans National Museum of History, near Cardiff…. Read More
4 July 2019
Hepworth Wakefield Wins Prestigious Museum Of The Year £100,000 Prize
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
Six Museums Shortlisted For 2015 Museum of the Year Art Fund Prize
The nominees are: Dunham Massey (National Trust), Altrincham, IWM London, The MAC, Belfast, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, HM Tower of London (Historic… Read More
25 April 2015
Hayward Gallery Nominated For Museum of the Year Prize 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
Art Fund Museum Prize Changes Name To Museum Of The Year
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