Finalists for £100k 2017 Art Fund Museum of the Year announced
Howard Lake | 28 April 2017 | News
Five museums have been shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017, the world’s biggest museum prize.
One outstanding UK museum will receive a prize of £100,000, with the other finalists receiving £10,000 in recognition of their achievements. This represents a 40% increase in the prize money available compared to last year.
The 2016 winner was the Victoria and Albert Museum, recognised for its ability to ‘reach and affect the lives of a diverse national audience’. In 2015, The Whitworth, Manchester won and was praised as ‘a museum of the future’.
This year’s winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year will be announced on 5 July 2017 at an event held at the British Museum in London.
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Finalists
Lapworth Museum of Geology
Birmingham
National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art
Newmarket
Sir John Soane’s Museum
London
Tate Modern
London
The Hepworth Wakefield
Wakefield
Judges
This year’s judging panel is:
- Richard Deacon, artist;
- Hartwig Fischer, Director, British Museum;
- Munira Mirza, former Deputy Mayor of London for Education and Culture
- Jo Whiley, BBC Radio 2 DJ and presenter.
WATCH: Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.