Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019
The search for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019 is on. The biggest museum prize in the world seeks out and celebrates innovation and achievement in museums and galleries across the UK.
The search for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019 is on. The biggest museum prize in the world seeks out and celebrates innovation and achievement in museums and galleries across the UK.
We award £100,000 to one outstanding winner and £10,000 to each of the other finalists.
It’s a moment to spotlight the originality and creativity of museums. Each year’s finalists – selected from applications from museums of all kinds and sizes – typically see a major boost in attendance and profile.
With past winners including the Whitworth, the V&A and The Hepworth Wakefield, the prize attracts national and international attention to the remarkable creativity and accomplishments of UK museums.
Please note: the deadline for entries is now closed.
12 December 2018 – applications open
6 February 2019, 12 noon – application deadline
May 2019 – shortlist of finalists is announced
June 2019 – judges visit finalists
July 2019 – winner is announced
Do you have what it takes to be Museum of the Year? If your organisation has been doing exceptional work in the last year we’d strongly encourage you to apply.
Applications are open from 12 December 2018 to 12 noon on 6 February 2019.
Winner of Museum of the Year 2018, Tate St Ives celebrates the important contribution of 20th century artists who lived and worked in Cornwall.
Wakefield's art gallery has its toes in the gushing waters of the river Calder and was the winner of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017.
Winner of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016, the V&A is home to more than two and a half million objects.
Winner of the Museum of the Year 2015, the Whitworth impressed with its extensive £15 million redevelopment project.
Winner of Museum of the Year 2014, YSP is an international centre for modern and contemporary art inspired by the natural beauty of the historic 18th-century Bretton Estate.
Housed in a fine Georgian building, the gallery is the only one in Britain dedicated to the leader of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Housed in a magnificent Victorian building designed by architect John Hayward, the museum has diverse collections of both local and international importance.