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The Art Fund is the UK’s leading independent art charity and exists to save art for everyone to enjoy.
 With the support of its 80,000 members it has helped more than 600 museums and galleries across the UK to acquire over 860,000 works of art, ranging from Bronze Age treasure to contemporary video installations.
The Art Fund has saved some of the greatest works of art in the UK’s public collections. 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, Holbein’s Christina of Denmark and JMW Turner’s The Blue Rigi recently secured for Tate.
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. The Art Fund’s sponsorship of this major award, (formerly the Gulbenkian Prize), reflects its continuing nationwide championship and celebration of museums and their visitors.
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.
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