Meet our 2024 winner

Young V&A was announced as Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 at a ceremony at the National Gallery, London, on 10 July.

Art Fund Museum of the Year
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2024 winner
Young V&A
Bethnal Green
Greater London
50% off exhibitions

Young V&A is a museum sparking creativity now and for the future. Created with children from early years to early teens, it is a place for young people to imagine, play and design, and get inspired by almost 2,000 toys, characters, objects and artworks on display from around the world and across history.

Child and parent play with an interactive exhibition
Young V&A, Museum of the Year Winner, 2024

Young V&A is a truly inspirational museum. With a brief from its young co-designers to create ‘the world’s most joyful museum’, Young V&A has achieved that and more.

Jenny Waldman, director, Art Fund, and chair of the judges
Hepworth Wakefield

Art Fund Museum of the Year is the world’s biggest museum prize

Art Fund has supported Museum of the Year since 2008. Over the years there have been many outstanding winners and finalists.

The prize champions what museums do, encourages more people to visit, and gets to the heart of what makes a truly memorable museum.

The judges present the prize to the museum that has shown how their achievements of the preceding year stand out, what makes their work innovative, and the impact it has had on audiences.

Museum of the Year finalists

Celebrating 10 years of Art Fund Museum of the Year with Google Arts & Culture

In 2023 we partnered with Google Arts & Culture to tell the stories of the past 10 years of winners and finalists, to mark the prize’s anniversary.

Art Fund Museum of the Year map

Discover all the winners and finalists of the prize, from 2013 to the present day

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