Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 shortlist announced
Experience Barnsley. Image © Marc Atkins.
LONDON
.-Art Fund, the national charity for art, today announced the five museums which have been selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021, the worlds largest museum prize.
The shortlisted museums are:
Experience Barnsley (Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England)
Firstsite (Colchester, Essex, England)
Timespan (Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland)
Art Fund annually shortlists five outstanding museums for the Museum of the Year prize. The 2021 edition reflects the resilience and imagination of museums throughout the pandemic. At this moment of museums re-opening and starting their recovery, the 2021 prize highlights and rewards the extraordinary and innovative ways in which museums have, over the past year, served and connected with their communities, even when they have had to close their physical spaces.
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