York Art Gallery is in the running for the European Museum of the Year Award, the only UK museum to feature in a shortlist of 46 nominees representing 24 countries.
Other contenders for the prize, which will be announced at an awards ceremony in Zagreb on 6 May 2017, include Greece’s Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Portugal’s Money Museum in Lisbon, the Swedish National Museum of Science & Technology in Stockholm and Poland’s Emigration Museum in Gdynia.
The nomination follows a string of successes for York Art Gallery, which reopened to critical acclaim in August 2015 following an £8million redevelopment project.
This year the institution has already received three Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) Awards, two York Design Awards, and been a finalist for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year.
“This is international recognition for the transformation which has taken place at York Art Gallery and it will help us to promote the gallery and the city of York as an exciting cultural destination to new audiences across the continent,” said Reyahn King, chief executive of York Museums Trust.
The European Museum of the Year Award was founded in 1977 with the aim of recognising excellence in Europe’s museums. The 2016 winner of the award was POLIN: Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, with Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery one of six museums receiving a ‘special commendation’.
The full list of nominees for the European Museum of the Year Award can be found here
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1. York Art Aallery. Photo: Giles Rocholl
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