Awards

New social justice category for Family Friendly Museum Award

Eighteen organisations in the running for the annual award, which will be announced in October

Manchester Museum named European Museum of the Year

Ceremony held in the Polish city of Białystok where five other awards were announced

Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund project highly commended in M+H Awards

Global Choices, Local Voices in Northern Ireland recognised in Partnership of the Year category

Shortlist revealed for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025

Beamish and Perth Museum among five institutions across UK in running for £120,000 prize

Application deadline extended for European Museum of the Year Award

The 2026 awards are open to museums that have opened or been substantially renewed since January 2021

Meet the winners of the Museums Change Lives Awards

From a celebration of unicorns in Perth to a groundbreaking refugee project in Hastings, the awards showcase the breadth and inventiveness of the sector's socially engaged practice

Where next for the Turner Prize?

As it enters middle-aged respectability, Gareth Harris takes a look at the art award that often turns heads, stirs controversy and generates debate. But can it keep it up forever?

Bilbao’s House of the Basque Language wins Council of Europe Museum Prize

Prize honours museums that make ‘significant contribution to the understanding of European cultural heritage’

Search is on for Museum of the Year 2025

Museums, galleries and heritage sites have until 27 January to apply for Art Fund award

Burrell Collection named Scotland’s building of the year

Glasgow museum wins top Rias award for redevelopment that 'rejuvenated an old friend'

Young V&A named family friendly museum of the year

National Civil War Centre and Turner Contemporary also win Kids in Museums awards

Artes Mundi to be shown across Wales again

The arts prize and exhibition will have a presence in Cardiff, Swansea, Llandudno and, for the first time, Aberystwyth