Art Fund Launches Search for Museum of the Year 2026
19 November 2025 • Mark Westall
Art Fund Museum of the Year will award £120,000 to the winning museum.
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Art Fund is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025 shortlist announced
29 April 2025 • Mark Westall
Art Fund has announced the 5 museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025,
44 UK museums & galleries to take part in global climate action project, THE HERDS.
26 March 2025 • Mark Westall
From giant puppet making workshops to a murmuration of human starlings, UK-wide activities and events inspired by THE HERDS, convened and… Read More
Art Fund launches search for Museum of the Year 2025.
28 November 2024 • Mark Westall
Museums, galleries and heritage sites have from today until 27th January 2025 to apply for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025
Art Fund today announced a total of £1 million in funding to support local museums and galleries.
31 October 2024 • Mark Westall
Art Fund today announced a total of £1 million in funding to support local museums and galleries across the country in response to the growing local authority funding crisis.
Gerard Byrne’s Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli – Film inside an image – gets first showing at Towner Eastbourne
15 August 2024 • Mark Westall
Irish artist Gerard Byrne’s Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli – Film inside an image (2015-16) to be presented at Towner for the first time
Young V&A the £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024
11 July 2024 • Mark Westall
Young V&A the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024, Dr Helen Charman, Director of Young V&A, was presented with the £120,000 prize – the largest museum prize in the world
Art Fund & Jerwood Foundation launch new fund to support artist commissions.
3 July 2024 • Mark Westall
Art Fund and Jerwood Foundation have today, Wednesday 3rd July, announced a new partnership to increase the support available for… Read More
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 shortlist revealed.
30 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Art Fund, the UK’s national charity for art, today announced the five museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024
Art Fund appoints Sandy Nairne as new Chair.
13 March 2024 • Mark Westall
Art Fund has announced today that Sandy Nairne will succeed Lord Smith of Finsbury as Chair of Trustees this autumn. … Read More
The Burrell Collection wins £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023.
13 July 2023 • Mark Westall
The Burrell Collection has won the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023. Duncan Dornan, Head of Museums and Collections for Glasgow… Read More
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023 shortlist revealed.
22 May 2023 • Mark Westall
Art Fund, the UK’s national charity for art, today announced the five museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023, the world’s largest museum prize.
The Wild Escape, the largest collaboration between UK museums ever.
24 January 2023 • Mark Westall
Launched today by Art Fund, The Wild Escape is the largest collaboration between the UK’s museums ever.
Art Fund awards £1.8M for bold and experimental projects.
21 December 2022 • Mark Westall
Art Fund has awarded a total of £1.8m for ‘bold, brave and experimental projects which will help museums reimagine engagement with audiences’.
Shortlist announced for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022
10 May 2022 • Mark Westall
Art Fund, the national charity for art, today announced the five museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of… Read More
The British Museum to present its first exhibition of emerging British artists.
4 March 2022 • Mark Westall
In a first for the British Museum, a series of exciting new acquisitions by emerging British artists, will be the focus of… Read More
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022 now open for application.
16 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Art Fund Museum of the Year, the world’s largest museum prize, is a celebration of the UK’s museums and galleries. It is announced today that the UK’s 2,500 museums, galleries and heritage sites have from 5 January 2022 until 8 February 2022 to apply for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022.
People in the UK plan a massive 66m trips to museums & galleries this summer.
29 July 2021 • Mark Westall
People across the UK are planning a massive 66m trips to museums and galleries this summer, as lockdown lifts and… Read More
Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist announced.
21 July 2021 • Mark Westall
Art Fund, the national charity for art, today announced the five museums which have been selected as finalists for Art… Read More
60% of UK museums and galleries worried about survival
19 November 2020 • Mark Westall
Museums, galleries and historic houses across the UK are facing a crisis due to the impact of Covid-19, with six in ten (60%) surveyed worried about their survival.
Prize money for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020 increases 40% to £200,000
23 July 2020 • Mark Westall
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020, recognising the challenges that museums face this year, the prize money awarded will go up to a total of £200,000, a 40% increase over previous years,
£250,000 now available for UK’s regional museums to borrow national treasures
13 June 2019 • Mark Westall
Art Fund announced today that applications are now open until 10th September for the third round of the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund, a £750,000 funding and training programme across three years
Art Fund pledges additional £500,000+ funding to support UK curators
4 February 2019 • Mark Westall
Art Fund has announced its new funding opportunities for 2019. The three programmes represent a total of £505,000 in further funding for uk curators.
Art Fund offers 500 paid student work opportunities
21 September 2018 • Mark Westall
Art Fund, the national charity for art, today launched the 2018-19 Student Art Pass offer to all university students in the UK, a specially discounted £5 version of its National Art Pass.