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The Museum of the Year Award, formerly known as the Gulbenkian Prize and the Art Fund Prize, is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a "track record of imagination, innovation and excellence". The award of £100,000 is Britain's biggest single art prize, and the largest single museum arts prize in the world.[1] The prize and is presented to a museum or gallery, large or small, anywhere in the UK, whose entry, in the opinion of the judges, best demonstrates a track record of imagination, innovation and excellence through work mainly undertaken during the previous calendar year.[2][3]

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The Museum of the Year was awarded by the British charity National Heritage from 1973 to 2000.[4] In 2001, the Museum Prize Trust was established with the aim of creating a single award to replace this prize and three others awarded by the Museums Association, the Art Fund and the Campaign for Museums.[5] The Gulbenkian Prize, as this was known, was first awarded in 2003.[3] The prize's principal sponsor until 2007 was the Lisbon-based Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, but since 2008 it has been sponsored by the Art Fund.[6] It adopted its current name in late 2012,[7] and the first award under the new name was given in 2013.

Since 2011 the Clore Award for Museum Learning, worth £10,000 and sponsored by the Clore Duffield Foundation, has been awarded for "quality museum and gallery learning with children and young people (from early years up to the age of 25) in any setting, in or out of school or college".[8] For its first two years this award had a separate shortlist but in 2013 it was awarded to an institution on the Museum of the Year shortlist, which had expanded from four to ten finalists.[5]

List of winners and shortlisted entries

National Heritage Museum of the Year (1973–2000)

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1973 Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry, Kendal, Cumbria
1974 National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire
1975 Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, West Sussex
1976 Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
1977 Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Telford, Shropshire
1978 Erddig Hall, Wrexham
Museum of London
1979 Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery, Saint Peter Port
1980 Natural History Museum, London
1981 Hunday Farm Museum, Stocksfield, Northumberland
1982 Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
1983 Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down
1984 Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire
1985 Burrell Collection, Glasgow
1986 Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum, County Durham
1987 Manchester Museum
1988 National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, West Yorkshire
1989 National Portrait Gallery at Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire
1990
Imperial War Museum, London
Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester
1991 National Railway Museum, York
1992 Manx National Museum, Douglas
1993
Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, St Helier
Jersey Maritime Museum, St Helier
1994 Tower Museum, Derry, County Londonderry
1995 Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire
1996 Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury
National Trust exhibition at Uppark, South Harting, West Sussex
1997 Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
1998 House of Manannan: Manx National Heritage, Peel
Jersey Maritime Museum, St Helier
1999 River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
2000 British Museum, London
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Gulbenkian Prize (2003–2007)

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2003 National Centre for Citizenship, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham[9]
2004 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh[11]
2005 Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon, Torfaen[13]
2006 SS Great Britain, Bristol[15]
2007 Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex[17]
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Art Fund Prize (2008–2012)

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2008 The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey[19]
2009 Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire[21]
2010 Ulster Museum, Belfast[23]
2011 A History of the World in 100 Objects, British Museum, London[24]
2012 Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon[26]
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Art Fund Museum of the Year (2013–)

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2013 William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, London[28]
2014 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield[31]
2015 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester[33]
2016 Victoria and Albert Museum, London[35]
2017 The Hepworth Wakefield[37]
2018 Tate St Ives[39]
2019 St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff[41]
2020 Aberdeen Art Gallery[43] N/a
Gairloch Museum, Wester Ross[43]
Science Museum, London[43]
South London Gallery, Camberwell, London[43]
Towner Eastbourne[43]
2021 Firstsite, Colchester
2022 Horniman Museum, London[45]
2023 Burrell Collection, Glasgow
2024 Young V&A, London
2025 Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, County Durham
2026 The Box, Plymouth
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