Our title sponsor
The Art Fund is a membership charity, founded in 1903, which is committed to saving art for everyone to enjoy.
 With the help of its 80,000 members it has helped more than 600 UK museums and galleries acquire over 860,000 works of art ranging from Bronze Age treasure to contemporary video installations.
Without The Art Fund, some of the greatest works of art in Britain’s public collections simply would not be there. They include Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery, Michelangelo’s sketch of Adam in the British Museum, Antonio Canova’s The Three Graces shared between the V&A and National Galleries of Scotland and JMW Turner’s The Blue Rigi recently secured for Tate.
As an independent charity The Art Fund campaigns for adequate public funding for acquisitions and acts as an advocate for museums and galleries across the UK. It spearheaded the campaign for free admission – which culminated in the decision to waive charges at all national museums and galleries in 2001. Art Fund sponsorship of this major award, (formerly the Gulbenkian Prize), reflects its continuing championship of museums and their visitors everywhere.
To find out more about The Art Fund, the art it has saved and its membership benefits, visit www.artfund.org
The Art Fund and the Museum Prize Trust gratefully acknowledge the support of the Sfumato Foundation.
Charlton House Restaurants:
wine sponsors for the 2008 Art Fund Prize
www.charltonhouse.co.uk
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