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Five UK attractions shortlisted for Museum Of The Year Award and £120,000 prize

The four losing finalists will each receive £15,000 from Art Fund.

Evening Standard

Five UK museums ‘alive with ideas and energy’ shortlisted for Art Fund prize

Museums in Belfast, Cardiff, Perth, Warwickshire and County Durham compete for £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year award

The Guardian - UK

Art Fund reveals 2025 Museum of the Year finalists

The world’s largest museum prize will award £120,000 to the winner, with finalists spanning living history, contemporary art and major redevelopments across the UK

The Independent UK

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Wedgwood Collection still revealing new treasures a decade after it was saved for the nation

From a royal dolls’ house tea set to a plate from a shipwreck, the V&A’s ceramics trove is full of gems from history that still inspire artists today

The Guardian - UK

Art Fund launches 'shush-free zone' to encourage noisy families to museums

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Young V&A wins Museum of the Year award

East London venue, previously known as the Museum of Childhood, described by judges as ‘truly inspirational’

The Guardian - UK

‘We dug deep into our souls at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park’: the power of art for healing and wellbeing

Mood-lifting, mind-expanding, heart-opening – art is so much more than just a feast for the eyes

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Revamped National Portrait Gallery among contenders for museum of the year

Shortlist dominated by institutions that have undergone extensive renovations, including Young V&A and Manchester Museum

The Guardian - UK

Glasgow's Burrell Collection named as museum of the year

The Burrell Collection was named the museum of the year at the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023. The museum closed in 2016 for a six-year refurbishment and was officially reopened King Charles in October 2022.

Glasgow Live

Sir Henry Raeburn portrait painted in Rome saved for the nation

National Galleries of Scotland welcomes the artwork, Patrick Moir, in the month of the bicentenary of Raeburn’s death.

The Independent UK

NI venue one of five in UK to be shortlisted for museum of the year award

"The arts have a transformative role in Belfast... where politics have failed, the arts have stepped in and provided people with a voice and a platform"

Belfast Live

War has shown Ukrainians – and the rest of us – why museums are so important for telling our stories

Objects from the front line bear bloodstained witness – not just to what happened, but to Ukraine’s very existence, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

The Guardian - UK

Glasgow's Burrell Collection shortlisted for major UK art prize

The Pollok Park venue is one of two Scottish museums to make the shortlist this year and the winner will be announced on July 12 with prize money being offered.

Glasgow Live

Shortlist announced for Art Fund Museum Of The Year

The winning museum will be announced at a ceremony held in the British Museum in London on July 12.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Scapa Flow Museum showing Orkney island’s wartime role up for top prize

UK museum of the year award has shortlist of five showing ‘astonishing ambition and boundless creativity’

The Independent UK

National Portrait Gallery unveils plan to share historic £50m painting between two countries

The historic masterpiece is one of the earliest great portraits of a person of colour

The Independent UK

National Portrait Gallery granted more time to secure cash to keep £50m painting in UK

The gallery has been in talks with the Getty Museum in California to strike an extraordinary deal

The Independent UK

Could the Getty museum save the £50m Portrait of Omai at 11th hour?

Exclusive: There are just 24 hours to hammer out a deal if the historic painting is to be saved for Britain

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The Guardian - UK

We can’t let Joshua Reynolds’ magnificent Portrait of Omai leave the UK

This breathtaking 7ft-high portrait of a Polynesian visitor to London in the 18th century captures a complex cultural encounter and showcases the genius of Reynolds

The Guardian - UK

This glorious portrait is too precious a treasure to be lost from our shores for ever

Even in tough times, masterpieces like Joshua Reynolds’s painting are worth saving

The Independent UK

‘It isn’t too late to turn things around’: Over 500 museums join forces for climate project aimed at ‘inspiring’ children

Leading artists including Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger, and musician FKA Twigs will participate

The Independent UK

Museums unite in UK’s largest art collaboration to inspire environmental change

The project aims to create a new relationship between museums and the natural world aiming to shape the lives of the children who participate.

The Guardian - UK

London’s Horniman crowned Art Fund museum of the year

Forest Hill venue praised for inspiring the next generation and showing environment, ecology and human cultures side by side

Evening Standard

Why the Horniman Museum in south-east London is up for the Art Fund Museum of the Year

This brilliant venue in Forest Hill houses wonders from around the world - including the overstuffed walrus that has become a local celebrity

The Independent UK

Silver casket Mary, Queen of Scots was thought to own acquired for nation

The item, made in Paris between 1493 and 1510, is on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

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