ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM RECEIVES ART FUND PRIZE

The annual Art Fund Prize for the UK museum of the year, worth $157,000, has been awarded to Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum, a local-authority-run museum. It recently underwent a $38 million renovation of its 1868 building, reports the Art Newspaper. The Art Fund Prize was first awarded in 2003 for museum excellence. Runners up for the prize include the Watts Gallery, Guilford, Surrey, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, the Hepworth, Wakefield, and the Turner Contemporary, Margate.