{"id":618608,"date":"2026-04-20T06:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:13:07","slug":"museum-of-the-year-finalists-revealed-by-art-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618608\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of the year finalists revealed by Art Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The museums which could clinch the Art Fund Museum of the Year title and its \u00a3120,000 prize have been revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Cambridge&#8217;s Fitzwilliam Museum, The Box in Plymouth, The National Gallery and V&amp;A East Storehouse, both in London, have been nominated for what is believed to be the world&#8217;s largest museum prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Art Fund director Jenny Waldman said the shortlisted sites had showcased &#8220;extraordinary creativity and innovation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added she hoped the charity&#8217;s announcement would inspire people to explore the finalists, and their local museums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The museums which could clinch the Art Fund Museum of the Year title and its \u00a3120,000 prize have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-618608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}