Museum of the Year Award news

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Dreamland Trust has appointed Jonathan Bryant as its project director. He will be taking up the post in January 2010. Bryant will be responsible ... More

Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia, has won the European Museum of the Year Award. The awards, which are in their 31st year, are organised ... More

The 10 UK museums and galleries selected for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year 2007 long list have been announced. The top-10 include ... More

Bristol Dockyard Museum SS Great Britain in Brunel has won the £100,000 Gulbenkian Museum of the Year award. Following a £11.3m restoration, the world’s first ... More

Bristol Dockyard Museum SS Great Britain in Brunel has won the £100,000 Gulbenkian Museum of the Year award. Following a £11.3m restoration, the world’s first ... More

A former South Wales coal mine has beaten 60 entrants to win one of the UK’s biggest arts prizes - the £100,000 Gulbenkian Museum of ... More