| Art Fund Museum of the Year | |
|---|---|
 Logo of the 2019 prize | |
| Sponsored by | Art Fund |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| First awarded | 1973 |
| Website | Art Fund Museum of Year |
The Museum of the Year Award, formerly known as the Gulbenkian Prize and the Art Fund Prize, is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a "track record of imagination, innovation and excellence". The award of £100,000 is Britain's biggest single art prize, and the largest single museum arts prize in the world.[1] The prize and is presented to a museum or gallery, large or small, anywhere in the UK, whose entry, in the opinion of the judges, best demonstrates a track record of imagination, innovation and excellence through work mainly undertaken during the previous calendar year.[2][3]
- ^ Mark Brown (6 July 2016), "'Unforgettable' V&A wins museum of the year award", The Guardian, retrieved 11 October 2019,
The museum wins £100,000, the biggest museum prize in the world and the largest arts award in the UK.
- ^ Guy Kelly (27 June 2015), "Who's who on the shortlist for the Art Fund museum of the year", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved 11 October 2019,
It is the largest prize in the world of museums, and as well as receiving £100,000, the victor can expect visitor numbers to soar.
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