Museum of the 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. 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.

History The Museum of the Year was awarded by the British charity National Heritage from 1973 to 2000. In 2001, the Museum Prize Trust was established with the aim of creating a single award to replace this prize and three others awarded by the Museums Association, the Art Fund and the Campaign for Museums. The Gulbenkian Prize, as this was known, was first awarded in 2003. The prize's principal sponsor until 2007 was the Lisbon-based Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, but since 2008 it has been sponsored by the Art Fund. It adopted its current name in late 2012, and the first award under the new name was given in 2013.

Since 2011 the Clore Award for Museum Learning, worth £10,000 and sponsored by the Clore Duffield Foundation, has been awarded for "quality museum and gallery learning with children and young people (from early years up to the age of 25) in any setting, in or out of school or college". For its first two years this award had a separate shortlist but in 2013 it was awarded to an institution on the Museum of the Year shortlist, which had expanded from four to ten finalists.

List of winners and shortlisted entries

National Heritage Museum of the Year (1973–2000)

YearWinner1973Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry, Kendal, Cumbria1974National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire1975Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, West Sussex1976Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire1977Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Telford, Shropshire1978Erddig Hall, WrexhamMuseum of London1979Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery, Saint Peter Port1980Natural History Museum, London1981Hunday Farm Museum, Stocksfield, Northumberland1982Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire1983Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down1984Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire1985Burrell Collection, Glasgow1986Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum, County Durham1987Manchester Museum1988National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, West Yorkshire1989National Portrait Gallery at Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire1990Imperial War Museum, LondonMuseum of Science & Industry, Manchester1991National Railway Museum, York1992Manx National Museum, Douglas1993Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, St HelierJersey Maritime Museum, St Helier1994Tower Museum, Derry, County Londonderry1995Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire1996Buckinghamshire County Museum, AylesburyNational Trust exhibition at Uppark, South Harting, West Sussex1997Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire1998House of Manannan: Manx National Heritage, PeelJersey Maritime Museum, St Helier1999River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire2000British Museum, London

Gulbenkian Prize (2003–2007)

YearWinnerShortlisted2003National Centre for Citizenship, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham Collections, Communities and Memories Community Project, Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham, South Yorkshire Darwin Centre Phase One, Natural History Museum, London RRS Discovery, Discovery Point, Dundee2004Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne Pembrokeshire Museum Service Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn, Cheshire2005Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon, Torfaen Coventry Transport Museum Time and Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon, County Durham2006SS Great Britain, Bristol Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London The Collection: Art and Archeology, Lincolnshire Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield2007Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Kew Palace, London Weston Park Museum, Sheffield

Art Fund Prize (2008–2012)

YearWinnerShortlisted2008The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey Breaking the Chains, British Empire & Commonwealth Museum, Bristol Shetland Museum and Archives, Shetland Wellcome Collection, London2009 Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Centre of New Enlightenment, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, London Ruthin Craft Centre: Centre for the Applied Arts, Denbighshire2010 Ulster Museum, Belfast Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Blists Hill Victorian Town, Telford, Shropshire Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry2011 A History of the World in 100 Objects, British Museum, London Polar Museum, University of Cambridge Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, Ayrshire Roman Baths Museum, Bath, Somerset2012 Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon The Hepworth Wakefield Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey

Art Fund Museum of the Year (2013–)

YearWinnerShortlisted2013William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, London The Hepworth Wakefield, winner of the Clore Award for Learning Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear The Beaney, Canterbury, Kent Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Horniman Museum and Gardens, London Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge Narberth Museum, Pembrokeshire Preston Hall Museum and Park, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham2014 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Ditchling, East Sussex Hayward Gallery, London Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, Norfolk Tate Britain, London2015 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Dunham Massey Hall, Greater Manchester Imperial War Museum, London The MAC, Belfast Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford Tower of London2016 Victoria and Albert Museum, London Arnolfini, Bristol Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham, London Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh York Art Gallery2017 The Hepworth Wakefield Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art, Newmarket, Suffolk Sir John Soane's Museum, London Tate Modern, London2018 Tate St Ives Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull Glasgow Women's Library The Postal Museum, London2019 St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff HMS Caroline, Belfast Nottingham Contemporary Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford V&A Dundee 2020 Aberdeen Art Gallery rowspan=5 Gairloch Museum, Wester Ross Science Museum, London South London Gallery, Camberwell, London Towner Eastbourne2021 Firstsite, Colchester Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry Experience Barnsley Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds Timespan, Helmsdale2022 Horniman Museum, London Museum of Making, Derby People's History Museum, Manchester The Story Museum, Oxford Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham2023 Burrell Collection, Glasgow Leighton House, London The MAC, Belfast Natural History Museum, London Scapa Flow Museum, Stromness2024Young V&A, London Craven Museum & Gallery, Skipton, North Yorkshire Dundee Contemporary Arts Manchester Museum National Portrait Gallery, London2025Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, County Durham Chapter, Cardiff Compton Verney, Warwickshire Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast Perth Museum2026The Box, Plymouth National Gallery, London V&A East Storehouse, London Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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