Museum of the Year
Annual award for a museum in the United Kingdom / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Museum of the Year Award, formerly known as the Gulbenkian Prize and the Art Fund Prize, is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a "track record of imagination, innovation and excellence". The award of £100,000 is Britain's biggest single art prize, and the largest single museum arts prize in the world.[1] The prize and is presented to a museum or gallery, large or small, anywhere in the UK, whose entry, in the opinion of the judges, best demonstrates a track record of imagination, innovation and excellence through work mainly undertaken during the previous calendar year.[2][3]
This article is about the annual prize awarded in the UK. For the Europe-wide award, see European Museum of the Year Award.
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Art Fund Museum of the Year | |
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Sponsored by | Art Fund |
Location | United Kingdom |
First awarded | 1973 (1973) |
Website | Art Fund Museum of Year |
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