Plymouth’s the Box wins 2026 Art Fund museum of the year award
Key takeaways
- Since opening, the Box has welcomed more than 1.3 million visitors.
- Prefer the Guardian on Google The Box in Plymouth has won the prestigious Art Fund museum of the year award, the largest such prize in the world, for its “ambitious and welcoming approach”.
- Awarding it the £120,000 prize, judges called the Box “a revelation in so many ways” and “a true jewel in the crown of the south-west”.
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Since opening, the Box has welcomed more than 1.3 million visitors. Photograph: One Plymouth/Art Fund/PAView image in fullscreen Since opening, the Box has welcomed more than 1.3 million visitors. Photograph: One Plymouth/Art Fund/PAMuseums Plymouth’s the Box wins 2026 Art Fund museum of the year award‘Ambitious and welcoming’ venue that opened in 2020 praised for ‘reimagining what being a museum can mean’
Prefer the Guardian on Google The Box in Plymouth has won the prestigious Art Fund museum of the year award, the largest such prize in the world, for its “ambitious and welcoming approach”.
Awarding it the £120,000 prize, judges called the Box “a revelation in so many ways” and “a true jewel in the crown of the south-west”.