# Finalists for £100k 2017 Art Fund Museum of the Year announced

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/28/finalists-for-100k-2017-art-fund-museum-of-the-year-announced/
- Published: 2017-04-28T08:59:25+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/07/02/the-whitworth-wins-100k-museum-of-the-year-prize-2015/)
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

  

 * **[The Hepworth crowned Art Fund Museum of the Year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/07/10/hepworth-crowned-art-fund-museum-year/)**(
   10 July 2017)
 * **[McDonald’s Canada removes radio ad after offending museums](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/01/16/mcdonalds-canada-removes-radio-ad-offending-museums/)**(
   16 January 2018)
 * **[St Fagans National Museum of History crowned Art Fund Museum of the Year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/07/08/st-fagans-national-museum-of-history-crowned-art-fund-museum-of-the-year/)**(
   8 July 2019)