Press releases

Please find our latest press releases below. If you'd like more information or images please call the press office on 020 7225 4804

September 2021

FIRSTSITE IS WINNER OF £100,000 ART FUND MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 2021

July 2021

UK adults planning 66m trips to museums and galleries this summer – but two thirds will head to the top ten ‘big names’ instead of smaller institutions
Art Fund launches Art Pass Unbooked – bringing together hundreds of museums and galleries from across the country in one place for the first time
Art Fund’s Ten Top Picks for Hidden Gems to Visit This Summer
FIVE MUSEUMS ACROSS THE UK SHORTLISTED FOR ART FUND MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 2021

June 2021

May 2021

April 2021

UK’s museums invited to apply for world's leading museum prize

March 2021

January 2021

December 2020

Museums' collections diversify and grow through New Collecting Awards

November 2020

UK museums and galleries facing crisis with 60% worried about survival

October 2020

Winners of £200,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020 unveiled

August 2020

Museums look to the future with innovative projects supported by Respond and Reimagine grants

July 2020

£200,000 investment announced for 2020 Art Fund Museum of the Year with launch of nationwide campaign for UK's museums

June 2020

Art Fund announces £2m to support museums through crisis

May 2020

Covid-19 impact: Museum sector research report on the challenges facing museums and galleries

April 2020

March 2020

Sandy Powell’s Oscar/BAFTA suit to be auctioned by Phillips to help save Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage as campaign reaches major milestone

February 2020

January 2020

Artists launch Art Fund campaign to save Prospect Cottage, Derek Jarman’s home & garden, for the nation

December 2019

November 2019

Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund

October 2019

Art Assembly festival announced

September 2019

Stephen Deuchar to step down as Director of Art Fund in 2020

August 2019

Art Fund announces winners of New Collecting Awards

July 2019

June 2019

April 2019

Five museums across the UK shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019

March 2019

Museum curators receive £200,000 to boost research through Headley Fellowships with Art Fund

February 2019

January 2019

Under-30s visit museums and galleries to 'de-stress', Art Fund research shows

December 2018

November 2018

September 2018

Student Art Pass 2018-19 launches with 500 paid student opportunities

July 2018

June 2018

May 2018

March 2018

Art and treasures to be shared by national collections with museums around the UK

February 2018

NEW REPORT CALLS FOR INCREASED INVESTMENT IN MUSEUMS AND THEIR COLLECTIONS

December 2017

November 2017

Over £500,000 to help museums outside London buy and commission contemporary artists’ film and video

July 2017

May 2017

Art Fund announces significant growth in its charitable programme supporting UK museums in 2016

April 2017

March 2017

February 2017

December 2016

August 2016

ARTIST ROOMS On Tour 2017 – A year of twentieth-century giants

July 2016

June 2016

May 2016

Royal Museums Greenwich and Art Fund appeal for help to save iconic Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I

April 2016

SHORTLIST FOR MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 2016 ANNOUNCED

March 2016

Art Fund helps leading regional museums collect major artists’ films

December 2015

October 2015

Satsuma Recreation of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling Named Art Fund’s Ultimate Edible Masterpiece of 2015

September 2015

Whitworth and Towner art galleries first to participate in pilot scheme for collecting artists’ film and video

August 2015

Calling all art-loving bakers: Cook up an Edible Masterpiece and help raise money for UK museums and galleries

July 2015

April 2015

Museum of the Year 2015 Shortlist announced

March 2015

January 2015

December 2014

October 2014

Wedgwood Collection saved

September 2014

July 2014

Yorkshire Sculpture Park named Museum of the Year 2014

June 2014

May 2014

April 2014

Six finalists announced for £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014

March 2014

Save Van Dyck appeal receives significant boost as painting offered to National Portrait Gallery for £10 million

February 2014

January 2014

£3.2 million raised so far to save Van Dyck self-portrait

December 2013

Major developments announced for Prize as search begins for Museum of the Year 2014

November 2013

National Portrait Gallery and Art Fund launch public appeal to secure Van Dyck's last self-portrait for the nation

October 2013

Art Fund’s free Frieze Sculpture Guide app highlights striking selection of works at Frieze Sculpture Park 2013

August 2013

Art Everywhere: 22,000 poster sites across the UK create the world's largest art show

July 2013

June 2013

May 2013

Jeremy Deller’s British Pavilion exhibition ‘English Magic’ to tour national venues in 2014

February 2013

Art Fund brings Sir Denis Mahon's 57 Italian Baroque masterpieces into the collections of six UK museums and galleries

January 2013

The Search is on for Museum of the Year 2013: Nominate your favourite museum

December 2012

November 2012

Arts Council Collection and British Council announce acquisition of Grayson Perry's The Vanity of Small Differences

August 2012

Art Fund backs the Fitzwilliam Museum in bid to save national treasure

July 2012

June 2012

May 2012

April 2012

March 2012

February 2012

January 2012

November 2011

Art Fund Prize judging panel announced for 2012

October 2011

Art Fund Prize 2012: Applications open for £100,000 award

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