Tag: Art Fund Museum of the Year

Victoria Pomery, chief executive, The Box, Plymouth – interview

Plymouth’s The Box has been named 2026 Museum of the Year by the Art Fund. Pomery talks about what it means to win the UK’s most prestigious museum prize
Rhiannon Hiles, chief executive, Beamish Museum – interview

Winner of the world’s largest museum prize, the £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year, Beamish, an open-air social history museum in north-east England, was described as ‘a joyous, immersive and unique place’. Rhiannon Hiles tells us all about it
Helen Charman – interview: ‘Young V&A is a very optimistic space. It’s airy, it’s colourful, it’s playful’

The Young V&A has been awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 award. The institution’s director discusses the museum’s creative transformation and its vision to build a community programme for deprived children living along the Thames Estuary
Patrick Heron

Patrick Heron’s postwar abstraction places figure and ground on an equal footing and exploits the all-important edge between forms and colours to create intense expressions of musicality and emotion