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🗓️🎨 Planning a cultural day out in London?
We’ve put together a list of just some of the biggest blockbuster exhibitions in London right now.
From Tate Modern celebrating contemporary African photography to V&A's show-stopper examining the cultural significance of the diva, you won’t want to miss them. 🖼👇
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Tag a friend to let them know you want to explore these fab exhibitions with. 💌
Calling all dog lovers, today is National Dog Day! 🐶
🖼 And what better way to celebrate our loyal furry friends, over centuries of art?
Head to The Wallace Collection’s exhibition: Portrait of Dogs and be pup-ared to see the works of art of Gainsborough, Hockney, Da Vinci and more.
🐾 Fetch your tickets by clicking here: https://bit.ly/443qxRd 🎟️
You can get 50% off with your National Art Pass. If you don't have one, you can purchase a three month trial National Art Pass for £15 in our flash sale (offer ends 31 August).
🖼️ Spend the Autumn exploring art and history at museums and galleries.
We're giving you the chance to try three months of National Art Pass - but hurry, you only have until 31 August: https://www.artfund.org/national-art-pass
Get 3 months of free or reduced-price entry to hundreds of the UK's best museums, galleries and historic places, plus 50% off major exhibitions – all for just £15. 🎨
– how have you been spending your summer holidays so far?
If you need further inspiration, why not explore 100s of cultural adventures for free or for less with a Teacher Art Pass. From just £25 a year, get yours today: https://bit.ly/45oR1ho
In celebration of World Photography Day, we've curated a fantastic selection of photography exhibitions for you to explore! 📸✨
📍South London Gallery
🎟️ Free entry with National Art Pass
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📍Watts Gallery – Artists' Village, Compton
🎟️ 50% off entry with your National Art Pass
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📍Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal.
🎟️ 50% off entry with your National Art Pass
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📍Brighton Photography Exhibition
🎟️ Free entry with your National Art Pass
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Where will you go with your National Art Pass? 👀
What are your plans this summer?
Open the door to a huge variety of art and culture for less with a Teacher Art Pass. You'll get discounts at 100s of museums, galleries and historic places, free entry or 50% off exhibitions and more from just £25 a year. Don't miss a summer of art and culture for a fraction of the cost: https://bit.ly/3KmcWgw
The Wallace Collection in London has welcomed an adorable exhibition dedicated to dogs. 🐾 🦴
Portrait of Dogs looks at humans' enduring devotion to our canine companions, displaying centuries of doggy art. 🐶
But what we want to know is, what are you naming this pup? Tell us in the comments. 💬
🖼️ Jean-Jacques Bachelier, Dog of the Hanava Breed, 1768, oil on canvas, French School.
© The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Hello summer holidays!
If you’re a teacher it’s time to make the most of all that cultural hotspots have to offer this summer. With a Teacher Art Pass you'll get free or reduced-price entry to 250+ museums, galleries and historic places, 50% off exhibitions and tips on the latest things to explore https://bit.ly/3KmcWgw
📢 Calling all - with discounts at over 250 museums, galleries and historic houses, 50% off major exhibitions and loads of great recommendations on what to see, Teacher Art Pass is a must to fill your summer holidays with fun days out for less. Get yours from £25 a year today https://bit.ly/3KmcWgw
Get a free tote bag designed by leading graphic artist when you purchase a . With a National Art Pass, explore hundreds of museums and galleries with free or reduced-price entry, plus 50% off this summer's major exhibitions.
And for a limited time only, you can get this limited-edition bag to take on your museum adventures. Use promo code 'SUPER' at
checkout before midnight 31 July to grab yours: https://bit.ly/Tote
As we fast approach the end of the month, make sure you don’t miss out on these exhibitions coming to an end. Use your National Art Pass to get free entry or 50% off entry.
Closing 30 July:
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense
Design Museum, London
Empowering Art: Indigenous Creativity and Activism from North America’s Northwest Coast
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
The Big City: London painted on a grand scale
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Closing 12 August:
Shezad Dawood: Leviathan: From the Forest to the Sea
Touchstones Rochdale
Closing 13 August:
Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Louise Wallace: Midnight Feast
The Mac, Belfast
Closing 20 August:
Louise Burdett - Wounded & the Art of Healing
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery
Download the Bloomberg Connects app to explore a world of expert-curated gallery content and guides from around the world and artist content from The Wild Escape.
Once you've got the app, simply search for "The Wild Escape" and hear talented artists like Mollie Ray talk about how museum collections influence and inspire their work. 🌿🎨
Children - seen & not heard? Not here!💥
Young V&A, an exemplary child-centered museum for the 21st century designed with & for young people, has opened!✨
David Trigg explores how giving young people agency as co-creators of museum experiences is the blueprint for inspiring a lifelong relationship with our institutions.🙌
has been inspiring creativity in children and young people across the UK, on the subject of biodiversity loss, by inviting them to seek out and make their own image of an animal depicted in a museum or gallery collection.
Discover more: https://bit.ly/3OwyutH
📣 Teachers and families! 📣
🎨 As we approach the end of the school year, here’s an activity to capture young people’s imagination and help inspire them to love and care for our planet and the wildlife around them 🌱👇
Step 1:
Search for creatures wherever you might find them.
They could be lurking in paintings, in the playground, in a book, or even online. 👀🐞
Step 2:
Now it’s time to make their favourite creature using whatever media you like!
You could use pens, make a collage, or even a 3D sculpture! ✏️🎨
Need some inspiration? Look no further: https://bit.ly/3OgFWJ9
Step 3:
Remember to spend some time getting to know the animals and the artwork created.
And finally, add your masterpieces to the collective artwork - the Wild World! 🌍
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Schools Out!
Time to get into holiday mode and make the most of the Summer. Watch this roundup of coastal museums and galleries that will add a splash of culture to your adventures and peak your family’s curiosity. Use your to get a host of benefits from free entry to 50% discounts on exhibitions and 10% off in the cafe.
Check out our website for full details on each museum: https://www.artfund.org/explore
If you’re taking the family remember to add plus kids to your National Art Pass for just £15.
📢 Sponsor a Dalek! 📢
For a century West London has been home to a hive of workshops that supplied some of the country’s most iconic Sci-Fi films and TV shows. The set designers, model makers, and costume designers played a pivotal role in creating films and TV shows including , and . This Autumn wants to celebrate their work and needs your help.
By sponsoring a Dalek (which appeared in the Doctor Who episode 'Remembrance of the Daleks' 1988) you will help provide some much needed TLC to this iconic character. You will also receive a thank you, which will appear on a plaque next to the dalek during the upcoming ‘Set to Stun’ exhibition. The perfect gift for the in your life - follow the link in our bio to pledge your support.
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Fancy a sneak peek into Chila Burman's studio? 👀
Watch as she talks about her practice and works on her contribution to The Wild Escape, a bright and beautiful collage of a pigeon. ✏️🐦
Explore the animals in museum collections across the UK, and join with thousands of children to create a huge collective artwork full of amazing creatures.
It’s easy! Just head to https://www.thewildescape.org.uk - happy exploring! 🐞🌍
We are delighted have featured on 'The Wild Escape' website, 22 exciting artworks by young artists that were first seen in the gallery’s Leeds Artists Show 2023. They liked them as much as we did, saying "we really haven’t seen anything else like the artwork that came out of this project for the Wild Escape and I’m really excited to bring it to life in the creature gallery".
Supported by their teachers and artist Nichola Pemberton, pupils from 9 local schools used collage and drawing experiments to picture animals escaping from gallery art and going back to the wild, helping us all remember the importance of taking care of the natural world. Follow this link for the Art Fund’s digital gallery https://buff.ly/44p5Z6B
ID: courtesy of the Art Fund. Colourful stylised image of an eagle
While we've all experienced the loud call and mischievous chip-snatching antics of seagulls, these creatures play a vital role in the delicate balance of the UK ecosystem. 🐦🌍
This seagull created by students from Hudson Road Primary School at the captures the bird that we're all so familiar with perfectly in its coastal habitat - complete with chips! 🍟
Explore the digital Wild World filled with creatures drawn, painted and made by children across the UK here: https://bit.ly/3MWACbO
Hear from Duncan Dornan Head of Museums and Collections for Glasgow Life on 's Front Row as he reacts to The Burrell Collection winning Art Fund https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001npdh
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Embark on a wild adventure with us & our pals Art UK, as we delve into 8 animal artworks found in UK museums where imagination knows no bounds. 🎨🐞
From creature creations to breathtaking landscapes, these masterpieces transport us to awe-inspiring worlds. 🌍
🖼️ Find out more about them here: https://bit.ly/3rutv3f
Art Fund Director and
judge Jenny Waldman talks about the
winner of the world’s biggest museum prize, The Burrell Collection
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The Burrell Collection WINS 2023 and the
£120,000 prize🏆
🎊 Congratulations to all the team! 🎉GlasgowMuseums
Thank you to our judges:
Larry Achiampong
Abadesi Osunsade
Laura Pyewaldman
Thanks to Grayson Perry for announcing
the prize.
Thank you to all the worthy finalists taking
part and making the judges’ job so difficult:
Scapa Flow Museum
they've
each received £15,000 in recognition of
their achievements.
Last but by no means least, thank you to
for hosting us this evening
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Front Row for sharing the announcement.
ArtFund 2023 judge Abadesi Osunsade took some time out to talk about why she thinks the award is so important.
“... it’s a really fun time to visit museums, because of the context of history that we’re in now. I feel like the purpose of museums is being challenged from all sides and it’s been really exciting for me as a judge to see how museums are actually reacting to that and responding to that and saying: you know, how can we stay relevant in a time where people are questioning our history and how we’ve got the amazing objects that we have? So it’s really important to be here now and see how these museums are really changing the narrative.”
The wait is almost over! Discover who will be awarded the world’s largest museum prize tonight. Join us on our social channels from 7pm to find out who’s walking away with the coveted title of Art Fund .
Thank you to Google Arts & Culture for celebrating the incredible museums shortlisted over the last 10 years. If you haven’t already, check them out: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/art-fund
“My expectations, they’ve been kind of blown out of the water… with all these applications.”
2023 judge Larry Achiampong offers an insightful reflection on the process of visiting each of this year’s finalists.
Only one more day to wait to discover who will be taking home the biggest museum prize in the world. Tune into our social channels from 7pm tomorrow to discover this year’s winner of
Who will it be?
The Burrell Collection
Leighton House and Sambourne House
Natural History Museum, London
The MAC
Scapa Flow Museum
Orkney Arts, Museums and Heritage
The historian and broadcaster Professor Mary Beard, is one of this year’s judges for . Watch to discover what Mary has found fun about the judging process and also what has stood out about the finalists.
Only 3 days remain before this year’s Art Fund winner is announced. Join us here on Wednesday from 7pm to find out which of the five finalists will be crowned the winner of the world’s biggest museum prize.
Scapa Flow Museum
Jenny Waldman, Director of , is one of the five judges for this year’s .
Watch now to discover what it’s like to judge the competition, what the finalists have in common, and why 2023 is such a special year for the prize.
All five of the judges visited the finalists last month.
Watch to hear what Laura Pye, Director of National Museums Liverpool, had to say about the competition and the positive impact of museums.
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There’s just one week to go until we discover who will win the world’s largest museum prize 🎉
Make a note in your diary to join us next Wednesday here from 7pm to find out who is this year’s
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Still making your mind up? See what our members have to say about their National Art Pass adventures. 👇
Just in case you missed it - enjoy 3 months of free or reduced price entry to some of the UK’s most inspiring museums, galleries and exhibitions for just £15 with a trial National Art Pass.
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The final spotlight in our finalists is Scapa Flow Museum. Based in the remote rural community of Hoy, the museum tells the story of the pivotal role Orkney played in World War I and II.
After a £4.4 million restoration it’s now able to showcase never-before-seen artifacts which were previously impossible to display. Visitors can explore largely unseen wreck sites through a new 3D exhibit and VR display.
Get 10% off in the museum’s shop with you
⏳ There’s less than 2 days left to get your hands on a £15 trial National Art Pass: https://bit.ly/46qpmxq
Make the most of the summer with three months of free or reduced-price entry to hundreds of museums and galleries across the UK, plus 50% off major exhibitions, for just £15.
What are you waiting for? Join before 30 June: https://bit.ly/46qpmxq
We’re spotlighting the work of Art Fund finalist today. Did you know that as well as being one of the world’s most visited museums it’s also a scientific research centre?
Watch this video to discover how the museum works with over 300 scientists, their groundbreaking research is informing solutions to the planetary emergency and biodiversity loss.
From its world-famous dinosaurs to displays of research work and a natural art collection, the museum has plenty to inspire visitors of all ages.
Get 50% off exhibitions with your National Art Pass
Children from across the UK have been showing they care for our wildlife and have used their creativity to picture a different future in which wildlife can thrive. 🐞
So have a number of renowned artists 🎨 including Bob and Roberta Smith, Heather Phillipson, Sayra Begum and Kevin Dalton-Johnson.
Can you find Heather Phillipson’s Pygmy Three-toed Sloth or Bob & Roberta Smith’s Otter? 🦦 https://bit.ly/3JCVrZl
Here’s three to start you off…
is one of the five finalists competing for this year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year.
As Northern Ireland's leading art centre and a key driver in Belfast's regeneration, the MAC aims to improve Northern Ireland for everyone by inspiring creativity and championing the power of the arts. The MAC houses extensive gallery space alongside a dance studio, theatres and workshop rooms.
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Turner Prize-nominated artist Heather Phillipson tells us about her new film commission for The Wild Escape and Art Night Dundee using wildlife documentary footage from the BBC Archive.🎨
"Museums are portals. Entering a museum is a way of entering the multiverse." 🖼️
'Dream Land' has been funded through Art Fund’s commission grants programme which supports the commission and acquisition of exceptional projects with significant public impact.
It is part of The Wild Escape, a major project led by Art Fund uniting over 500 museums with schools and families in a celebration of UK wildlife and creativity. 🖌️🐞
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Did you miss the live recording of the special episode of #MeetMeAtTheMusem? It was recorded at HOME in Manchester as part of #ArtAssembly 2022. Listen to Russell Kane in conversation with Art Assembly artists. Plus, don’t miss Testament's spoken-word piece composed especially for the day. Get the full episode here: podfollow.com/MMATM
Tomorrow we find out who's won #MuseumOfTheYear 2022. Over the last few weeks our judges, Jenny Waldman, Diane Lees, Janina Ramirez, Harold Offeh & Huw Stephens, have been visiting each of the finalists to find THE WINNER.🎉 Who's it going to be?
Just 6 days left to make sure Curwen Print Study Centre can display their wonderful archive for all to see. Help them reach their target and choose from a range of brilliant rewards including tote bags, studio tours and limited edition, signed prints. http://artfund.org/curwen-archive
📖 Get to know #MuseumOfTheYear 2022 finalist The Story Museum. @thestorymuseum @brendaemmanus #oxford #museum
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The Curwen Print Study Centre needs your help to raise £26,350 to bring the Curwen Archive to life in their new gallery space. By donating you'll be able to choose from a range of brilliant rewards including totes, tours and signed prints. https://www.artfund.org/donate/art-happens/reveal-the-curwen-archive-for-everyone #ArtHappens
Help reveal the Curwen Archive for everyone Curwen Print Study Centre need your support to raise the £26,350 to bring the Curwen archive to life in their new Gallery space. https://www.artfund.org/donate/art-happens/reveal-the-curwen-archive-for-everyone #ArtHappens
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