FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Discover the five amazing museums that have been shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022.
National Art Pass
Pick up your National Art Pass today to enjoy free entry to hundreds of museums, galleries and historic places across the UK. Your membership will also help Art Fund support your favourite venues, so that everyone can enjoy brilliant museums.
Make a difference
All young people deserve to enjoy museums as places of inspiration, learning and fun. Join our campaign to help museums provide creative opportunities for children, schools and young people.
What we do
We give grants to support UK museums and galleries, and we’ve adapted our funding programme to help them come through the Covid-19 crisis.
More art, more often
Art in public
We’re thrilled to have supported a fantastic public artwork by Thomas J Price honouring the Windrush Generation, now on permanent display outside Hackney Town Hall in London.
Discover somewhere new
In search of something out of the ordinary for your next museum visit? Here’s our pick of exciting, inspiring and unusual spaces to explore across the UK.
Meet Me at the Museum
In the latest episode of our podcast, comedian Suzi Ruffell takes her pal, fellow comedian Jenny Bede, to Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes – once the top-secret home of Britain’s codebreakers during the Second World War.
Exhibition highlights
Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen
- The Courtauld Gallery, London
- Until 3 September 2022
Football: Designing the Beautiful Game
- Design Museum, London
- Until 28 August 2022
Must see exhibitions of 2022
Van Gogh at the Courtauld gallery, Marina Abramović at Modern Art Oxford and Beatrix Potter at the V&A are just some of the major names to get excited about in 2022.
Art Happens
Reveal the Curwen Archive for everyone
Curwen Print Study Centre
Curwen Print Study Centre need your help to raise the £26,350 funding required to ‘Bring the Curwen Archive to Life’ in their new gallery space.
By donating to bring the archive to life you will be part of bringing the past, present and future of print together for all to see.
Latest articles
The exhibitions you must see this July
17 June 2022
From a study of the UK's vibrant youth culture to a look at African fashion and the East London grime scene, July welcomes a collection of exciting exhibitions, perfect for a break in the shade.
Looking Ahead: Insights from our museum directors’ research
19 May 2022
Art Fund recently carried out the third in its series of annual research into the impact of Covid-19 on museums. Over two years on from museums’ doors first closing, our director of programme and policy, Sarah Philp, shares her view on what the research tells us about the current moment, and what Art Fund will be doing next.
The exhibitions you must see this June
19 May 2022
Doctor Who touches down in Liverpool and Ad Minoliti brings a splash of colour to Tate St Ives – explore these fantastic exhibitions plus many more in sunny June.