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Over the next few months, there is outstanding contemporary art in some of the country’s most romantic and imposing country ...
Compton Verney is proud to have been selected as one of the five finalists for the prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year ...
A North East visitor attraction has secured a national accolade. Beamish has been crowned Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025.
They include two of the organisations showing Hew Locke’s work in 2025: Compton Verney in the UK and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, US.
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, has been named Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025, securing the £120,000 ...
Last year also saw the debut of an exceedingly rare 17th-century allegorical painting showing a Black woman and a white woman side be side at Compton Verney in England.
Billy Porter, famous for his Broadway roles in such shows as Kinky Boots and Grease, and onscreen in Pose and Cinderella is making his directorial debut in theatre with This Bitter Earth. Jesse is an ...
The other four finalists—Chapter (Cardiff), Compton Verney (Warwickshire), Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast), Perth Museum (Perth & Kinross)—each receive £15,000.
The other shortlisted museums, all highly commended by the judges, were: Chapter (Cardiff), Compton Verney (Warwickshire), Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast) and Perth Museum (Perth & Kinross).
Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, scooped the £120,000 prize money on its 55th anniversary of its opening. The ...
Featuring a recreated 1950s town, Beamish in County Durham was awarded the prestigious prize for its "joyous, immersive and ...