Art Fund Museum Of The Year 2025: Judges & Winner

Art Fund Museum of the Year Judges

The Art Fund Museum of the Year judges 2025 consist of the musician Rana Begum; David Dibosa, the supervisor of research and interpretation at Tate; Jane Richardson, the president of Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales, and the comedian Phil Wang.

The Art Fund Museum of the Year reward is moneyed by its participants who acquire a National Art Pass. It has actually been awarded every year given that 2013; previous winners have consisted of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, the Horniman Museum, Tate St Ives and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Youthful V&A, a gallery focused on kids that resumed in London in 2023, won in 2015’s Art Fund Gallery of the Year reward.

Beamish Museum Wins Award

Beamish, The Living Gallery of the North in Area Durham– which attempts to show what life resembled in the Georgian, Edwardian, 1940s and 1950s eras through meetings with “costumed people”– was announced as winner of the ₤ 120,000 reward the other day (26 June) in a ceremony at the Gallery of Liverpool.

Jenny Waldman, Director of Art Fund, claims in a statement: “The judges were blown away by the amazing focus to detail of its exhibitions throughout a 350-acre site and by the interest of its personnel and volunteers.” The various other 4 finalists– Phase (Cardiff), Compton Verney (Warwickshire), Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast), Perth Museum (Perth & Kinross)– each get ₤ 15,000.

Remaking Beamish Project

The 55-year-old museum just recently completed its “Remaking Beamish” job, the entertainment of a 1950s town including 32,000 area participants. In 2024, the museum welcomed more than 838,000 site visitors. An Unlimited Pass allowing entry for a year from the date of acquisition prices ₤ 33 (standard).