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Please See the Application Pack APPLICATION PACK Application deadline: 6 February 2019 Shortlist announcement: May 2019 Winner announcement: July 2019 artfund.org/museum-of-the-year #museumoftheyear Art Fund Museum of the Year 3 Art Fund Museum of the Year Recent winners and finalists 4 The biggest museum prize in the world, Art Fund Museum of the Year The judges 6 seeks out and celebrates innovation and exceptional achievement in museums and galleries across the UK. What the judges are looking for 8 We award one outstanding winner £100,000 and each of the other Our work with finalists 10 finalists £10,000 to support future activity. Eligibility 12 It’s a moment to spotlight the originality and creativity of the museum sector. During the process each year’s finalists – selected from How to apply 14 applications from museums of all kinds and sizes – typically see a major boost in attendance and profile, strengthened support from stakeholders What happens after you’ve applied 16 and wider public recognition. Winner announcement 17 The prize also helps to reinforce finalists’ relationships with their audiences both locally and nationally and to make new, Timeline 18 lasting connections. Terms and conditions 19 2 3 Recent winners and finalists Art Fund Museum of the Year has helped to draw national and international attention to the many and varied accomplishments of UK museums. 2018 Winner: Tate St Ives Celebrating the important contribution of 20th-century artists who lived and worked in Cornwall, Tate St Ives reopened in 2017 following a major redevelopment undertaken in close consultation with the community. Finalists: Brooklands Museum, Weybridge; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Glasgow Women’s Library; The Postal Museum, London 2017 Winner: The Hepworth Wakefield The gallery hosted a sequence of special exhibitions, saw the success of its inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, and showed a dedication to Atkins 2018 © Marc Ives, St Tate serving the local community. Finalists: Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham; National Heritage ‘Winning Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 was an Centre of Horseracing Sporting Art, Newmarket; Sir John Soane’s Museum, incredible honour. The recognition of our transformative London; Tate Modern, London building project led to an exciting year, with an increase in 2016 visitors and a positive response to our displays of iconic 20th Winner: Victoria and Albert Museum, London century artists and ambitious contemporary art programme. The museum produced ambitious and innovative exhibitions and new This significant award recognises our commitment to local displays that were entertaining, challenging, rooted in scholarship, communities, as well as the increased importance of Tate St and attracted a notably diverse audience. Ives nationally and internationally.‘ Finalists: Arnolfini, Bristol; Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London; Jupiter Artland, West Lothian; York Art Gallery Anne Barlow, Director, Tate St Ives, Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 4 5 The judges Brenda Emmanus Broadcaster and journalist Brenda Emmanus has Each year an independent panel gathers to select the winner of Art Fund presented programmes and documentaries across Museum of the Year. The judges for 2019 are: BBC television and radio. Previously an arts and features editor for the Voice Newspaper Brenda has also been a facilitating judge for two anthologies Stephen Deuchar commissioned by Penguin Books and the Creative Director of Art Fund since 2010, Dr Stephen Arts Awards for the Stroke Association. Deuchar has chaired the judging panel since 2013. Before joining Art Fund, Stephen was the first director Bridget McConnell of Tate Britain (1998-2009), having previously spent 12 years as a curator then exhibitions director at the Chief executive of Glasgow Life, Bridget McConnell National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. is the strategic lead ensuring Glasgow is a world- leader in culture and sport. Career highlights have included overseeing the £35 million refurbishment of David Batchelor Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the opening Artist David Batchelor has exhibited widely of the Riverside Museum, named European Museum internationally, with recent exhibitions in London, of the Year in 2013. A fellow of the Royal Society of Tehran and Melbourne. Deriving from a long-term Arts, Bridget was made CBE in 2015 in recognition of interest in colour and urbanism, his work comprises services to culture. three-dimensional structures, photographs, paintings and drawings. Bill Sherman Bill is director of the Warburg Institute (University of London), one of the world’s leading centres for the study of images, ideas and societies, and was previously director of research and collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and founding director of the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies at the University of York. Active on editorial boards, trusts and councils on both sides of the Atlantic, he served as associate editor of Shakespeare Quarterly for over a decade. 6 7 What the judges are looking for To be considered for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019, please show us how your achievements over the preceding year stand out, what makes your work inventive and the impact it has on your audiences. These achievements might include: — bold and imaginative exhibitions, collection displays or conservation projects — learning programmes which help to develop skills, knowledge and enjoyment in new ways — acquisitions which have had a real impact on the museum and its audiences — creative use of technology or digital media — diversity or access initiatives which greatly broaden audience engagement and participation The Hepworth Wakefield, 2017 © Marc Atkins © Marc 2017 Wakefield, The Hepworth — programmes of modernisation, reorganisation or reinterpretation — new buildings, refurbishments or reinventions of existing spaces ‘Innovation and ambition come in many guises, and in museums and galleries of many kinds – large, small, historic, contemporary, scientific. Our winner will show exceptional creativity and ingenuity – whatever the type of institution or context.’ Stephen Deuchar, Art Fund director, and chair of the judges 8 9 Our work with finalists ‘Our grant from Art Fund helped us to develop a social story film in collaboration with the Ambitious about We want to help finalists make the most of being shortlisted for Autism charity and six young people with autism. The film Art Fund Museum of the Year, and to take full advantage of the helps visitors to understand what we offer and to make an opportunities it presents. informed choice if a visit is right for them. We are quite a We don’t expect you to tell us how you plan to use the prize money. complex museum being split across two sites, and what we We make this investment in our winner and finalists simply on the offer can be overwhelming due to the interactivity, colours understanding that they will spend it to the benefit of their audiences. and sounds. The input of the young people was invaluable Helping you make connections in that it ensured we included the right information in the right way.’ We support finalists in their communications strategy, providing on-site and digital promotional materials and developing creative Hannah Smith, community learning officer, the Postal Museum, engagement activities. 2018 finalist In 2018 this involved us organising a Student Road Trip, sending five Student Art Pass members on a whistlestop tour of all five finalists. Producing social and video content to tell the story of their journey, the students acted as ambassadors for the museums, sharing their experiences with their peers online. Helping you reach audiences The prize promotes access to museums for the widest possible audience. Each finalist is offered funding to undertake access training or a project most suited to their organisation, and we encourage finalists to use this aspect of the prize as a prompt to think about access and inclusivity in new or more embedded ways. A finalist in 2018, the Postal Museum used this funding to create a bespoke orientation film for visitors with autism spectrum disorder. The Postal Museum, 2018 © Marc Atkins Museum, 2018 © Marc The Postal 10 11 Eligibility Art Fund Museum of the Year is open to all museums, galleries and historic sites in the UK. Applicants are usually either fully or provisionally accredited under the Arts Council England Accreditation Scheme, but exceptions are readily considered where organisations are in the public sector, have charitable status or conduct activities that are based on the care, display or interpretation of collections of artistic, historical or scientific interest. Organisations should also be open regularly to the public. Only one entry may be made per individual museum or gallery, though where an organisation operates several venues an entry may be submitted for each. Institutions can enter in consecutive years. We are keen to encourage as many strong entries as possible. If you are Brooklands Museum, 2018 © Marc Atkins Museum, 2018 © Marc Brooklands unsure whether your organisation is eligible, please contact prize project manager Emma Coleman on 020 7225 4822 or [email protected] ‘Being chosen as a finalist for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 has done so much for Brooklands Museum. In our 30th year, we have been in the spotlight like never before and we have no doubt that the contacts we made and the increased attention we received will make a huge difference to what we can do in the future. Most of all, our volunteers, staff and trustees were thrilled to see what the museum achieved.’ Tamalie Newbury, director & CEO, Brooklands Museum, 2018 Finalist 12 13 How to apply ‘I read recently that John Dryden said the purpose of art is to delight and instruct, with the emphasis on delight – because Applications are open from 12 December 2018 to 12 noon on 6 February instruction is not always delightful but delight is always 2019, and are made online. instructive. I can’t think of a better account of why I have If your museum has had an exceptional year, we strongly encourage always loved going to museums, or of how they do their work.’ you to apply.
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