£100,000 arts prize to boost museums
The Gulbenkian Foundation has announced a major new arts prize to benefit museums and galleries.
The prize is open to all UK galleries and is intended to recognise and reward “the most innovative and inspiring idea – an exhibition, new gallery, public programme or important new initiative – developed during 2002”.
Entries will need to “have a genuine and demonstrable effect on public perceptions of museums and galleries, and enhance appreciation of their role”.
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The prize money comes from the Gulbenkian Foundation together with arts philanthropist Christopher Ondaatje and the government group Resource.
Read “Museums vie for £100,000 ‘Booker rival'” by John Ezard at The Guardian.

