The Postal Museum, in London, which opened last summer, is one of five museums shortlisted for the £100,000 Art Fund museum of the year prize for 2018, it was announced on Tuesday. It will compete against Tate St Ives, Glasgow Women’s Library, Hull’s Ferens Art Gallery, and Brooklands motor and aviation museum in Weybridge. Simon Opie, director of the Postal Museum, said it was an honour. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Postal Museum, in Clerkenwell, London. Previously known as the Gulbenkian prize and then the Art Fund prize, former winners of the award range from the enormous – the British Museum in 2011 – to the tiny – the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, east London, 2013.

Source: The Guardian May 01, 2018 18:45 UTC