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About the Art Fund Prize
The purpose of the Art Fund Prize is to recognise, celebrate and stimulate originality and excellence in museums and galleries across the UK, and increase public appreciation and enjoyment of all they have to offer.
A single award of £100,000 is presented to a museum or gallery whose entry, in the opinion of the judges, best meets the prize criteria through a project completed or mainly undertaken in the previous calendar year. The Prize winner also receives the Prize Bowl for one year.
The Art Fund Prize is administered by The Museum Prize, a charitable company created in 2001 by representatives of National Heritage, the Museums Association, The Art Fund and the Campaign for Museums. These organisations agreed to put aside award schemes they formerly ran (including National Heritage’s Museum of the Year) and lend their support to this single major prize. The Trust is chaired by Penelope, Viscountess Cobham.
The Art Fund Prize Administrator is Maddy Pickard, who can be contacted at info@artfundprize.org.uk or on 07966 319 279.
Prize sponsors
The Art Fund has sponsored The Museum Prize since 2008. The Art Fund is the national fundraising charity for works of art and plays a major part in enriching the range, quality and understanding of art in the UK. It campaigns, fundraises and gives money to museums and galleries to buy and show art, and promotes its enjoyment through its events and the National Art Pass.
Current initiatives include sponsoring the UK tour of the ARTIST ROOMS collection, and the recent successful campaign in partnership with the National Trust to raise £2.7 million to save Brueghel’s The Procession to Calvary for Nostell Priory. The Art Fund is funded by its art-loving and museum-going members and supporters who believe that great art should be for everyone to enjoy.
From 2003–2008 the principal funder of the Prize was the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation whose headquarters are based in Lisbon, where the Gulbenkian Museum is recognised as one of the world's best small museums.
The UK Branch of the CalousteGulbenkian Foundation has been a pioneering funder and promoter of the arts, social welfare and education in the UK for the past 50 years, playing an active role in encouraging artists and arts organisations, including museums, to find original and inventive ways of developing their practice. The UK Branch is responsible for grant aid in the UK and Republic of Ireland and runs funding programmes in arts, social welfare, education and Anglo-Portuguese cultural relations.
Previous winners, long and short listed museums, and judges
The British Museum, for A History of the World
- Chair of the Judges: Michael Portillo, broadcaster and former cabinet minister
- Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE, theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster
- Jeremy Deller, artist
- Kathy Gee, museums and heritage consultant
- Charlotte Higgins, journalist and author
- Lars Tharp, Foundling Museum curator, broadcaster and Antiques Roadshow expert
- Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, Independent Cross Bench peer and writer, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster
The Ulster Museum, Belfast
- The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Blists Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
- Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
- Hampton Court Palace, London for Henry VIII: heads and hearts
- The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
- The Leach Pottery, St Ives
- The National Army Museum, London, for Conflicts of Interest
- The Natural History Museum, London, for the Darwin Centre
- The Royal Institution of Great Britain
- Towner, Eastbourne
- The Ulster Museum, Belfast
- Chair of the Judges: Kirsty Young, broadcaster
- Kathy Gee, museums and heritage adviser
- Professor A C Grayling, Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, London
- Professor J Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, University College London
- Sally Osman, communications consultant and former Director of Communications, BBC
- Lars Tharp, Director, The Foundling Museum and BBC Antiques Roadshow expert
- Jonathan Yeo, artist
Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
- The Braid: Arts Centre and Mid-Antrim Museum, Ballymena, Co Antrim
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
- National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, for Scotland: A Changing Nation
- The Museum of Reading, for Outside the Box
- National Trust Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
- Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
- Rotunda – The William Smith Museum of Geology, Scarborough
- Ruthin Craft Centre: The Centre for the Applied Arts, Denbighshire
- The V&A, London, for The Sackler Centre for arts education
- Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
- Chair of the Judges: David Puttnam, film-maker and educationalist
- Robert Crawford, outgoing Director General of the Imperial War Museum
- Sally Osman, communications consultant and former Director of Communications at the BBC
- Grayson Perry, Turner Prize-winning artist
- Mathematician and author Marcus du Sautoy
- Maggie Semple, Chief Executive of The Experience Corps
- Journalist and broadcaster Mary Ann Sieghart
The Lightbox gallery and museum, Woking
- The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol, for Breaking the Chains
- the British Library, London, for Sacred – Discover What We Share
- International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
- The Lightbox gallery and museum, Woking
- London Transport Museum, London
- National Army Museum, London, for Helmand: The Soldiers' Story
- The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
- Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick, Shetland
- Topsham Museum River Gallery Project, Topsham Museum, Exeter
- Wellcome Collection, London
- Chair of the Judges: Sue MacGregor CBE , broadcaster
- Keith Khan, Head of Culture for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
- Diane Lees, Director of the V&A Museum of Childhood and Director Designate of the Imperial War Museum
- Christopher Lloyd CVO, former Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures
- Dr Mark Miodownik, Head of Materials Research Group, King’s College London
- Maggie Semple OBE, Chief Executive of The Experience Corps Ltd
- Emma Soames, Editorial Director of SAGA Publishing
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, East Sussex
- De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
- Horniman Aquarium, Horniman Museum and Gardens, London
- New Century Project, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
- Kew Palace, Historic Royal Palaces, London
- Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex
- Scotland & Medicine: Collections & Connections, Scotland
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, London
- Warner Textile Archive, Braintree District Museum, Essex
- Weston Park Museum, Sheffield Galleries & Museums, Sheffield
- The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University: Prostitution: What’s Going On?
- Chair of the Judges: Francine Stock, author and broadcaster
- TristramBesterman , museum consultant, former director of Manchester Museum
- Richard Calvocoressi, Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Director-elect of the Henry Moore Foundation
- Dr Mark Miodownik, materials scientist, head of the Materials Research Group at King's College London, Director of the Materials Library
- Joanna Moorhead , journalist and author
- Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster
- MohiniSule, cultural broadcaster for programmes including BBC Culture Show and The People’s Museum
Brunel’s ss Great Britain, Bristol
- Chair of the Judges: Professor Robert Winston, esteemed scientist and broadcaster
- Michael Day, Chief Executive, Historic Royal Palaces
- EkowEshun, writer, journalist and broadcaster and artistic director of the ICA
- Diane Lees, director of the V&A Museum of Childhood
- Joanna Moorhead, journalist and author
- Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster
Big Pit: the National Mining Museum of Wales
- Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon
- Big Pit, National Mining Museum of Wales, Blaenafon
- National Trust West Midlands, Back to Backs, Birmingham
- The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
- Compton Verney, Warwickshire
- Coventry Transport Museum
- Time and Tide, Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, Lochmaddy, North Uist
- The Foundling Museum, London
- Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon, Co Durham
- Chair of the Judges: Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College London
- Joan Bakewell CBE, broadcaster and writer
- Sir Neil Chalmers, Warden, Wadham College, Oxford and former Director of the Natural History Museum
- Michael Day, Chief Executive, Historic Royal Palaces
- Sokari Douglas Camp, sculptor
- Victoria Hislop, journalist and novelist
- Dr Elizabeth Mackenzie, Vice-Chairman, British Association of Friends of Museums
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
- Thinktank, Birmingham, Futures Gallery
- Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
- The Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, The Sanctuary project
- The National Trust at Sutton House, Hackney, Black History Month 2003
- Henry Moore Institute in association with Leeds Museums and Galleries, Leeds
- The Royal Armouries, Leeds, The Knight is Young exhibition
- National Gallery, London, Titian and Titian After Dark
- Prescot Museum, Merseyside
- The Museum of Antiquities, University of Newcastle
- Pembrokeshire Museum Service
- Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham, Heritage Education Project
- Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn, Cheshire
- Tyne & Wear Museums, Segedunum, Wallsend
- Chair of the Judges: Loyd Grossman OBE, broadcaster, writer and Chairman of the Campaign for Museums
- Rosie Millard, arts correspondent for the BBC and freelance journalist
- Peter Jenkinson OBE, National Director of Creative Partnerships
- Joan Bakewell CBE, broadcaster and write
- Mark Lythgoe, neurophysiologist and lecturer
- Sokari Douglas Camp, sculptor
- Mark Bolland, PR professional and former Deputy Private Secretary to HRH the Prince of Wales
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