Please find our latest press releases below. If you'd like more information or images please call the press office on 020 7225 4804
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
Applications now open for three flagship Art Fund grants programmes including £200,000 for Headley Fellowships
St Fagans winner of £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019
June 2019
Art Fund announces record membership growth and launches new funding for the conservation of collections in UK museums
£250,000 for UK’s regional museums to borrow national treasures
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
Treasures and masterpieces travel from national collections to museums nationwide
Art Fund pledges additional £500,000 funding to support UK curators
January 2019
Under-30s visit museums and galleries to 'de-stress', Art Fund research shows
December 2018
Rare Anglo-Saxon pendant is voted Britain’s favourite work of art in Art Fund’s 2018 poll
Search for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019 begins today
Voting opens to find Britain’s favourite work of art in Art Fund’s 2018 poll
November 2018
Museums and galleries - Britain's untapped wellbeing resource?
Art Fund launches new podcast 'Meet me at the Museum'
September 2018
Student Art Pass 2018-19 launches with 500 paid student opportunities
July 2018
New £600,000 initiative to support future of curators and museum collections
Tate St Ives wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018
June 2018
Art Fund announces latest winners of New Collecting Awards
£250,000 released for second funding round of Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund
May 2018
Art Fund reports record-breaking year
ART FUND MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 2018 SHORTLIST FOR £100,000 PRIZE ANNOUNCED
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
ART FUND MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 2018 LAUNCHED
New funding sees art and treasures shared with museums across the UK
Sir Edwin Landseer's ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ is voted UK’s favourite art acquisition of 2017 in Art Fund poll
Continued investment in UK’s curatorial talent with New Collecting Awards scheme
November 2017
Over £500,000 to help museums outside London buy and commission contemporary artists’ film and video
July 2017
This year give the cultural membership that gives back
The Hepworth Wakefield is winner of £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017
May 2017
Art Fund announces significant growth in its charitable programme supporting UK museums in 2016
April 2017
Five finalists announced for £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017
New funding for sharing works of art across the UK
March 2017
Art Fund announces next six winners of New Collecting Awards
Leighton House Museum Voted Most Romantic in Art Fund and eHarmony Online Poll
February 2017
Art Fund statement regarding Pontormo's Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap
Artist Isaac Julien appointed Art Fund trustee
Art Fund and eHarmony call on the public to help choose UK’s best museum for a date
December 2016
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017 launched
Art Fund's £1m scheme nurturing the UK's curatorial talent
August 2016
ARTIST ROOMS On Tour 2017 – A year of twentieth-century giants
July 2016
£7.4m Heritage Lottery Fund grant and thousands of public donations save iconic Elizabeth I portrait
ARTISTS AND MUSEUM WORLD LUMINARIES GATHER IN LONDON TO CELEBRATE WINNER OF ART FUND MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 2016 ANNOUNCED BY HRH DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE
June 2016
Appeal to save Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I reaches £2.7 million following rapid public response
First crowdfunding platform dedicated to art raises almost £300,000 for museums
Art Fund celebrates a year of growth in membership, programme and impact
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
2016 Museum of the Year Prize launched
Art Fund announces the next six winners of its New Collecting Awards
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
July 2015
£100k increase for second round of New Collecting Awards, the Art Fund’s scheme to nurture the UK’s curatorial talent
The Whitworth in Manchester wins Museum of the Year 2015
April 2015
Museum of the Year 2015 Shortlist announced
March 2015
Art Fund helps save the Minton Archive for the nation
The UK’s only crowdfunding platform for the museum sector reaches £100,000 milestone and launches first London project
January 2015
National Gallery and Art Fund Curatorial Traineeships Programme continue to foster new talent
New Art Fund initiative launched to get the public walking for local museums
December 2014
2015 Museum of the Year Prize launched
V&A and WWRD finalise agreement to keep Wedgwood Collection at Barlaston
Launch of dynamic exhibitions programme fig-2
October 2014
September 2014
ART FROM ELSEWHERE exhibition
Appeal launched to save Wedgwood Collection - £2.74m needed by November
July 2014
Yorkshire Sculpture Park named Museum of the Year 2014
June 2014
From going to giving: national crowd-funding initiative heralds new era of creativity in museums
Museum leaders to gather in London for inaugural Museums Summit
May 2014
VocalEyes audio description for ‘Museum of the Year’ finalists enhances engagement with the arts
The Art Fund launches competition to find the best photograph of Museum of the Year finalists
Frances Quinn reveals her “Edible Masterpiece” as part of Art Fund initiative
National Portrait Gallery and Art Fund 'Save Van Dyck' appeal successful as over £10m raised thanks to Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £6.3m
April 2014
Six finalists announced for £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014
March 2014
February 2014
Duchess of Cambridge views Van Dyck self-portrait as appeal reaches £3.5 million and deadline extends to July
New initiative shows that when inspired by art, fundraising is a piece of cake
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
October 2013
August 2013
Art Everywhere: 22,000 poster sites across the UK create the world's largest art show
July 2013
The Art Fund and National Gallery Curatorial Traineeships programme continues to foster new curatorial talent
Lord Browne calls for a New Age of Philanthropy
June 2013
Art Fund membership tops 100,000 as UK public amongst most generous arts supporters in the world
Public to select artwork from longlist for world's largest art exhibition
Public choose works for world’s biggest exhibition showcasing great British art on poster sites across the UK
William Morris Gallery wins UK’s largest arts prize – £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year
May 2013
Jeremy Deller’s British Pavilion exhibition ‘English Magic’ to tour national venues in 2014
February 2013
January 2013
The Search is on for Museum of the Year 2013: Nominate your favourite museum
December 2012
Tower Hamlets' ownership of 'Old Flo' is challenged by Bromley
The panel of judges are announced for Museum of the Year 2013
November 2012
August 2012
Art Fund backs the Fitzwilliam Museum in bid to save national treasure
July 2012
UK museums celebrate £5m international contemporary collecting programme with year of major new exhibitions
Robert Mapplethorpe comes to Dunoon
June 2012
Exeter's 'magical' Royal Albert Memorial Museum crowned Museum of the Year, winning £100,000 Art Fund Prize
Clore Award for Museum Learning presents £10,000 each to Leicestershire County Council Heritage and Arts Service and Whitworth Art Gallery
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art receives gift of work by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham on centenary of artist's birth
Art Fund Prize 2012 reveals the nation's ten 'Unsung Museum Heroes'
May 2012
Shortlist for the second annual £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning announced
Four museums in running to win £100,000 Art Fund Prize for 'museum of the year'
Art Fund Prize 2012 shortlist announced
Shortlist for the second annual £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning announced
Five museums win major new objects at leading international craft fair
Art Fund Collect 2012 winners announced
Five museums win major new objects at leading international craft fair
V&A acquires its first Eve Arnold Photograph
Art Fund launches Art Guide app
April 2012
Permanent new home secured for Yinka Shonibare, MBE's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle as public appeal succeeds
New editor for Art Quarterly
Nine museums in the running for share of £75,000 contemporary craft fund
Design Museum acquires Jasper Morrison's handlebar table for its collection with help from the Art Fund
March 2012
The Art Fund launches Art Guide app
Robert Mapplethorpe comes to Dunoon
Labours of the Months: Norwich's newly-acquired medieval stained glass reveals the surprisingly modern lives of our medieval ancestors
Art Fund Prize 2012 launches search for the nation's Unsung Museum Heroes
February 2012
Art Fund supports first permanent UK public sculpture by Rachel Whiteread for the Whitechapel Gallery
Ten museums in the running to win £100,000 as Art Fund Prize 2012 longlist is announced
January 2012
The Art Fund and Crafts Council celebrate five years of Art Fund Collect
University of Dundee Museum reveals plans for biology-inspired art collection, funded through the Art Fund's RENEW programme
November 2011
Art Fund Prize judging panel announced for 2012