Talk:Museum of the Year

More Sources
I just sourced the article (including some winners and short listed candidates) and fleshed out a little more about those unfamiliar. There are more sources here if anyone wants to take it further. TRAVELLINGCARI My storyTell me yours 03:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. The dab page was unnecessary as it only had two items (hatnotes are sufficient in these cases). &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 15:14, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Art Fund Prize → Museum of the Year – This is the new name of this prize. (See here.) There is no other prize with this exact name to my knowledge, but a disambiguation notice at the top for European Museum of the Year Award might be a good idea. Ham 17:26, 20 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I went ahead and moved the article before I saw this request. Museum of the Year is currently a disambiguation page, which is why I added "award" in lower case after the award title. BabelStone (talk) 17:43, 20 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I must admit that didn't occur to me as a way round the problem... although given a choice between Museum of the Year award and Museum of the Year I'd prefer the latter, so we may as well keep the request for a move. Ham 07:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
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"Museum of the Year Award" in the 1980s
This article mentions that Bodelwyddan Castle "won the Museum of the Year Award in 1989". There is also a reference to such an award existing in 1980 here. Neither of these references appears to be to the European Museum of the Year Award. It would be interesting to trace the history of this award before 2003, which is the earliest date covered by this article. Ham II (talk) 16:52, 16 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Following this edit in 2019, the article now shows that at at least the first of these references is to National Heritage's Museum of the Year prize awarded between 1973 and 2000. Now I see that the Thackray Museum of Medicine, one of the runners-up for this year's prize, was Museum of the Year in 1998. This can't have been National Heritage's prize, as the joint winners that year were the House of Manannan and the Jersey Maritime Museum – so it must be one of the three rival prizes awarded by the Museums Assocation, the Art Fund and the Campaign for Museums before 2001. This is the first reference I've been able to find to a winner of one of the non-National Heritage prizes before that date; there must be a list somewhere... Ham II (talk) 08:49, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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2022 winner
Having added the 2022 winner, I’ve screwed up the last table, such that the entries now appear at the bottom of the article. Will try to sort myself, but if any editor more competent can fix it in the meantime, I’d be grateful. (Ah Rexxxs, where are you.) KJP1 (talk) 07:14, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorted. KJP1 (talk) 07:17, 16 July 2022 (UTC)