Galleries share the UK’s biggest museum prize

Three art galleries are among the five winners who will get equal shares of the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020 prize – the world's biggest museum prize and the UK's largest arts award. Aberdeen Art Gallery, South London Gallery and Towner Eastbourne will each receive £40,000 from the fund, as will Gairloch Museum and the Science Museum. In recent years a single winner has received £100,000, with four other shortlisted institutions each getting £10,000. But Art Fund responded to the unprecedented challenges facing museums by selecting five winners and increasing the prize money to £200,000.