East London’s Younger V&A museum has received the world’s largest museum prize after it was named the Artwork Fund Museum of the Yr for 2024, and awarded a £120,000 prize.
Younger V&A reopened a yr in the past following a £13 million capital venture to remodel the previous V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Inexperienced right into a museum of creativity with a quick from the museum’s younger co-designers to create ‘the world’s most joyful museum’.
Younger V&A affords three everlasting galleries (Play, Think about and Design); a short lived exhibition house; restored Grade II listed architectural options; improved retail and café areas; new accessible routes and services, together with an accredited Altering Locations Rest room (the primary and solely in Tower Hamlets); and an enhanced and expanded Clore Studying Centre and Artistic Studios.
Younger V&A welcomed over 590,000 individuals within the first 9 months of opening – a 223% enhance on the V&A Museum of Childhood’s figures for a similar interval in 2019/20 – indicating Younger V&A’s important attraction.
Tradition Secretary Lisa Nandy, mentioned: “Our world-leading museums are a supply of creativity and curiosity that may encourage lifelong passions for studying, historical past and the humanities.
“This yr’s Artwork Fund Museum of the Yr was a tricky competitors with an thrilling shortlist representing establishments from throughout the nation. Congratulations to the Younger V&A on this achievement, recognising their exhausting work to create a novel house devoted to younger individuals.”
The opposite shortlisted museums, all extremely recommended by the judges, are:
- Craven Museum (Skipton, North Yorkshire)
- Dundee Modern Arts (Dundee)
- Manchester Museum (Manchester)
- Nationwide Portrait Gallery (London).
Every finalist will obtain £15,000. Along with £120,000 obtained by the profitable museum, the whole prize cash for Artwork Fund Museum of the Yr is £180,000, which was elevated in 2023 to mark 120 years of Artwork Fund supporting museums.
The prize is funded by Artwork Fund’s members who purchase a Nationwide Artwork Go. Go holders get pleasure from reductions and advantages on the finalist museums and a whole lot extra museums, galleries and historic locations throughout the UK, while additionally supporting Artwork Fund’s work championing and supporting museums.
Earlier winners of Artwork Fund Museum of the Yr 2013 – 2023:
- 2023 – The Burrell Assortment, Glasgow
- 2022 – Horniman Museum and Gardens, London
- 2021 – Firstsite, Colchester
- 2020 – Aberdeen Artwork Gallery; Gairloch Museum; Science Museum; South London Gallery; and Towner Eastbourne (joint winners)
- 2019 – St Fagans Nationwide Museum of Historical past, Cardiff
- 2018 – Tate St Ives
- 2017 – The Hepworth, Wakefield
- 2016 – Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London
- 2015 – Whitworth Artwork Gallery, Manchester
- 2014 – Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
- 2013 – William Morris Gallery, London
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