British Museum wins Art Fund Prize
Rebecca Atkinson, 16.06.2011
London national wins £100,000 Museum of the Year
The British Museum has won the 2011 Art Fund Prize for A History of the World.
The London-based museum beat the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, in Alloway, Scotland, the Roman Baths Museum in Bath and the Polar Museum, in Cambridge to scoop the award.
A History of the World project explored world history through the British Museum’s collection and through museum and gallery collections across the UK in partnership with the BBC.
The Art Fund Prize 2011 panel comprised of chair Michael Portillo, Jim Al-Khalili, Jeremy Deller, Kathy Gee, Charlotte Higgins, Lars Tharp and Lola Young.
The British Museum joins previous Art Fund Prize winners, including the Ulster Museum, Belfast (2010); Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent (2009); the Lightbox, Woking (2008); and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2007). The prize is now in its ninth year.
The Clore Award for Learning
Meanwhile, the new Clore Award for Learning was won jointly by the South London Gallery and a consortium of the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The Clore Foundation doubled the £10,000 prize money, bringing it to a total of £20,000.
The other contenders for the prize were: Weston Park, Sheffield, for With Sheba and Arwa; National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth for Face to Face; and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, for Culture Shock.
The London-based museum beat the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, in Alloway, Scotland, the Roman Baths Museum in Bath and the Polar Museum, in Cambridge to scoop the award.
A History of the World project explored world history through the British Museum’s collection and through museum and gallery collections across the UK in partnership with the BBC.
The Art Fund Prize 2011 panel comprised of chair Michael Portillo, Jim Al-Khalili, Jeremy Deller, Kathy Gee, Charlotte Higgins, Lars Tharp and Lola Young.
The British Museum joins previous Art Fund Prize winners, including the Ulster Museum, Belfast (2010); Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent (2009); the Lightbox, Woking (2008); and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2007). The prize is now in its ninth year.
The Clore Award for Learning
Meanwhile, the new Clore Award for Learning was won jointly by the South London Gallery and a consortium of the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The Clore Foundation doubled the £10,000 prize money, bringing it to a total of £20,000.
The other contenders for the prize were: Weston Park, Sheffield, for With Sheba and Arwa; National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth for Face to Face; and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, for Culture Shock.
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