Museum of the Year news

The European Museum of the Year 2020 will be won by one of 61 nominated institutions now announced by the European Museum Forum. Among those ... More

London's Design Museum has named Tim Marlow – currently artistic director at the Royal Academy of Arts – as its new chief executive and director. ... More

Nearly 200,000 people have visited London's Postal Museum since the £26m (US$33.6m, €28.9m) attraction's official launch one year ago. Created to chronicle five centuries of ... More

Tate St Ives is the only leisure building to find its way onto the shortlist for the 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best ... More

Tate St Ives has been named the winner of this year's Art Fund Museum of the Year. The awards ceremony took place at the Victoria ... More

The winners of this year’s Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence have been announced, with shortlisted projects celebrated and recognised across the museums, galleries, heritage ... More

London's Design Museum has been named the winner of the European Museum of the Year Award. Moving to its new £85m (US$115m, €96.4m) home in ... More

The shortlist for this year's Museum of the Year Award has been revealed, with the Brooklands Museum, Ferens Art Gallery, Glasgow Women’s Library, the Postal ... More

Manchester Museum has announced the appointment of a new director, marking the first woman to hold the position in the institution’s 125-year history. Esme Ward, ... More

A selection of nominees are in contention for the European Museum of the Year Award 2018, with the judging panel revealing its shortlist of 40 ... More

Britain’s exit from the EU poses a major threat to the future of museum collections, according to the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum ... More

Martin Roth - the former Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) director and the first German to head up a major UK cultural institution - has ... More

The Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum is using the £100,000 (US$130,000, €118,000) prize it received in 2016 for winning the Art Fund’s Museum of the ... More

Martin Roth has resigned from his position as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) – a decision fuelled in-part by his disillusionment at ... More

Following a record-breaking year, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) has been named Museum of the Year 2016, with judges saying it had “indisputably become ... More

The Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton has been awarded the prize for ‘Best Architecture & Spatial Design’ at the 2015 Leading Culture Destinations Awards in ... More

MUMA’s “highly-original” extension and refurbishment of Manchester’s Whitworth art gallery has made the shortlist of six for this year's Stirling Prize. It was described by ... More

Manchester’s National Football Museum, Titanic Belfast and the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth are among this year’s nominees for European Museum of the Year. Whittled ... More

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), Wakefield, UK, has taken home a £100,000 prize from The Art Fund after being announced the UK Museum of the Year ... More

The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth was among the chief winners at the Museums and Heritage Awards on May 14, scooping two trophies at the ... More

The Art Fund has announced the six shortlisted candidates to become the UK’s Museum of the Year. Two national galleries in London – the Hayward ... More

William Morris Gallery has been awarded the prestigious title of Museum of the Year for its major renovation and creative reinterpretation of the life and ... More

The European Museum Forum (EMF) has awarded the Glasgow’s Riverside Museum: Scotland’s Museum of Transport and Travel, with the European Museum of the Year Award ... More

England's first purpose built art gallery, a gallery dedicated to sculptor Barbara Hepworth and a London museum dedicated to music and anthropology are among the ... More

A panel of judges has been announced for next year’s Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries, now rebranded Museum of the Year. Applications for ... More