Manchester's Whitworth gallery wins museum of the year award
- 2015-07-07
- The Guardian
The Whitworth in Manchester has been named the UK’s 2015 Museum of the Year after a £15m transformation hailed as “one of the great museum achievements of recent years”.
Judges for the £100,000 Art Fund prize said the Whitworth had cemented its place as the centre of the cultural national stage.
Stephen Deuchar, the director of the Art Fund who chaired the judges, said: “The transformation of the Whitworth – architecturally, curatorially, and as a destination – has been one of the great museum achievements of recent years.”
He praised the galleries, the collections, the community engagement, and the visitor experience. “And in a wider sense, the Whitworth has changed the landscape; it truly feels like a museum of the future.”