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After a wild journey he's finally back and with some good news...

🎉 WE'VE BEEN SHORTLISTED FOR MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 🎉

Art Fund #MuseumoftheYear

Museums are places to find belonging.

As part of #MuseumOfTheYear , Art Fund are shining a light on the value of museums, so we’re taking a look at what that means for our communities.

Here, artist Yan Preston talks about her work within our Chinese Culture Gallery.

It’s home time on a Friday…

It’s a bank holiday weekend…

Your local museum is shortlisted for museum of the year…

Could life get any better right now? Here’s what our staff thought about the nomination!

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We're still not over last night's news that #TheBurrellCollection is #MuseumofTheYear 2023 🥳

Hear from Keeper of the collection, Dr. Samuel Gallacher, on what winning this prestigious prize means to the museum and community that it belongs to ❤️🔊

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🗓️ With just 1 week until the #MuseumoftheYear 2024 shortlist is revealed, we wanted to introduce the 5 brilliant judges who will be deciding this year’s winner! 🏆

Meet Anupam Ganguli, Vick Hope, Tania Kovats, John Leighton and Art Fund’s Director, Jenny Waldman:

Craven Museum being shortlisted for Art Fund #MuseumOfTheYear 2024 is such an honor and highlights the passion and commitment of our small team of staff and volunteers.

Here's us celebrating on the Yorkshire cobbles at Skipton Town Hall cultural hub! ❤️

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Why is Art Fund #MuseumOfTheYear so important to museums?

Duncan Dornan, Head of Museums and Collections for Glasgow Life and winner of the award for The Burrell Collection explains why.

Lovely spread in ⁦⁦Times Travel⁩ on great places to visit: “Britains most exciting museums” - all five finalists for ⁦Art Fund⁩ #MuseumOfTheYear 2024
Craven Museum ⁦Skipton Town Hall⁩ DCA⁩ ⁦Manchester Museum⁩ ⁦National Portrait Gallery⁩ ⁦Young V&A⁩

We're celebrating 120 years of Art Fund! 🎉 #ArtFund120

To mark the SLG being named joint winners of Art Fund #MuseumOfTheYear 2020, poet Jude Yawson responded to the quote, ‘The Source of Art is in the Life of a People’, inlaid in the floor of our Main Gallery since 1897.

We’re delighted to announce that we have been nominated for Art Fund Museum of Year 2024. A massive congratulations to the shortlist - Craven Museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Manchester Museum and Young V&A. #MuseumoftheYear

💥 The #MuseumoftheYear shortlist is here! These are the 5 exceptional museums; @skiptontownhall, @dcadundee, @mcrmuseum, @npglondon and Young V&A, all competing to win the ultimate prize of £120,000.🏆

Discover what Duncan Dornan Head of Museums and Collections for Glasgow Life had to say when The Burrell Collection was crowned Art Fund #MuseumOfTheYear
The Burrell Collection

Today we're looking back at the exhibition which was, in part, responsible for our Art Fund #MuseumOfTheYear win in 2014.

The judges visited FABRIC-ATION by Yinka Shonibare MBE, his largest show in the UK and the first time his Wind Sculptures were shown.

Exciting to be shortlisted for Art Fund #MuseumoftheYear 2024 Manchester Museum 😀

“They’ve got astonishing digital displays...It’s a way of engaging people with art and decorative arts that I’ve never seen before.”

Art Fund Director and #MuseumOfTheYear judge Jenny Waldman talks about the winner of the world’s biggest museum prize The Burrell Collection

We’ve been shortlisted for Art Fund #MuseumoftheYear , the world's largest museum prize! 🎉

The prize champions the work of the UK’s museum’s galleries and heritage sites - we’re so proud to be included.

We caught up with painter and writer Lachlan Goudie recently to chat about what the Burrell Collection's #MuseumofTheYear shortlist announcement means to him ❤️🔽

There are only a few days left until we find out who's been crowned Art Fund #MuseumofTheYear 2023 - stay tuned! 👀

This is the final weekend to apply for Museum of the Year 2024, applications close at midday on Monday 15 January. It's your last chance to be in the running to win the world's largest museum prize £120,000 bit.ly/474WUkF 🎉
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Today we’re celebrating 120 years of Art Fund 🎉

We were fortunate enough to win Art Fund #MuseumOfTheYear in 2019 following the completion of our Making History redevelopment project.

Diolch yn fawr Art Fund! #ArtFund120

As one of the five finalists, we're excited to be attending the Art Fund  #MuseumoftheYear Awards tonight.
🤞 Wish us luck, and tune into BBC The One Show at 7pm tonight to find out which museum wins!