Young V&A wins Art Fund Museum of the Year awards 2025

We are delighted to share the wonderful news that after its first year of opening, Young V&A has been awarded the incredible accolade of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 – the largest museum prize in the world. Art Fund annually shortlists five outstanding museums for Museum of the Year. The 2024 edition recognises inspiring projects from autumn 2022 through to winter 2023, with audiences and communities at their heart, and a focus on community engagement, sustainable ways of working, and demonstration of ambition by reinventing what it means to be ‘the best’ museum for the audiences of today and tomorrow.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, said:

Our world-leading museums are a source of creativity and curiosity that can inspire lifelong passions for learning, history and the arts.This year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year was a tough competition with an exciting shortlist representing institutions from across the country. Congratulations to the Young V&A on this achievement, recognising their hard work to create a unique space dedicated to young people.