A recently refurbished Glasgow museum has won one of the world’s most lucrative art prizes. The Burrell Collection has been named the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023, which comes with a £120,000 award.
image for illustration: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
… ‘one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world.’…
BBC News writes (12/07/2023):
The Burrell Collection has been named the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023, which comes with a £120,000 award.
The winner was announced by artist Sir Grayson Perry at a ceremony at the British Museum in London on Wednesday.
The Burrell beat Leighton House (London), The MAC (Belfast), Natural History Museum (London) and Scapa Flow Museum (Orkney)…
The Burrell Collection in Pollok Country Park houses the 9,000-object collection of Sir William and Constance Burrell.
The collection – which includes objects from Europe and Asia – was donated to Glasgow by Sir William in 1944.
Sir Hector Hetherington, former principal of Glasgow University, described the donation of the collection as “one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world.”…
[image description] King Charles contemplated Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, one of the world’s most recognisable sculptures when he officially reopened the collection
…Jenny Waldman, director of the Art Fund and chair of the judges for the competition, said: “The Burrell Collection is extraordinary – a world-class collection displayed in an inspirational building, in harmony with the surrounding landscape of Pollok Park…”
