Burrell Collection Announced Art Fund Museum Of The Year 2023 Winner
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
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Grace Ndiritu Wins Jarman Award 2022 – £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year Award – 2023 Turner Prize Towner Eastbourne Jury Announced
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 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
Liverpool Loses UNESCO World Heritage Status – National Gallery To Buy Sir Thomas Lawrence The Red Boy – Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 Shortlist
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
Art Fund Steps In With Shared 200K Museum Of The Year Award
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
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019 Finalists Announced
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
Government Earmarks £20m For Culture and Creative Industries In England
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
Museum Of The Year 2018 Shortlist Announced By Art Fund
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
Landseer Monarch of the Glen Voted Art fund’s Favourite Acquisition 2017
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
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
Art Fund Announces Winners Of New Collecting Award programme
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
Outstanding V&A Wins Coveted Art Fund Museum of the Year £100,000K Award
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
Art Fund Appeal To Save Elizabeth I Portrait For The Nation
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
Art Fund’s Museum Of The Year 2016 Shortlist Announced
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
British Singletons: Knowing About Art Makes Someone Appear More Attractive
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
Art Fund’s UK Curatorial Scheme Increased By £100k In New Round
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
New Art Fund Initiative Launched To Get The Public Walking For Local Museums
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
Art Fund Announces Judges For 2015 Museum Of The Year Award
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
Wedgwood Collection To Stay In Staffordshire After Appeal Success
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
Wedgwood Collection Could Be Saved For The Nation As Deadline Approaches
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
Art Fund Museum of the Year Awarded To Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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
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 Launches Edible Masterpieces To Help UK Museums And Galleries
The Art Fund have launched a new fundraising initiative that encourages art lovers to create edible masterpieces – all funds… Read More
20 February 2014
Tate Chair Lord Browne Calls For New Arts Funding Model
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
Contemporary Art Society Announces Museums Awarded New Media Acquisitions
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
Art Fund Museum Of The Year Award 2013 Shortlist Announced
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
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
Rachel Whiteread Whitechapel Sculpture Voted Art Fund’s Most Popular Attraction
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
Art Fund’s Legal Challenge Over Henry Moore Sculpture Sale
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
Art Fund To Secure Nicolas Poussin Masterpiece For Nation
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
Art Fund Museum of the Year Awarded To Royal Albert Memorial Museum
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
Best Gallery Of The Year Shortlist Overlooks Tracey Emin Turner Contemporary
The longlist for the Art Fund’s best new gallery prize has been whittled down to a shortlist of four –… Read More
15 May 2012