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5 July 2018

The prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year award 2018 has been awarded to Tate St Ives. Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar praised the gallery's programme as "at once adventurous, inclusive and provocative". It will also receive a cheque for £100,000.

The Museum of the Year award is the biggest museum prize in the world, seeking out innovation and exceptional achievement in museums and galleries across the UK.

This year's five-strong shortlist featured a women's centre, a celebration of our postal system, a Turner Prize host venue and the home of British motoring and aviation but it was Tate St Ives that took home the £100,000 prize.

The gallery celebrates the important contribution of 20th-Century artists who lived and worked in Cornwall. Following a £20 million refurbishment it reopened in October 2017 with the addition of an elegant new extension by architect Jamie Fobert, which has since hosted exhibitions dedicated to Rebecca Warren, Virginia Woolf and Patrick Heron.

The jury who chose the winner were Ian Blatchford, Melanie Manchot, Monishah Shah, Rebecca Jones and chair Dr Stephen Deuchar CBE.

The announcement was made at an event at London's V&A, the venue that . Other previous winners include (2017), The Whitworth in Manchester (2015) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2014).

The four other venues nominated for Museum of the Year each received a runner-up prize of £10,000. They were:

• Brooklands Museum, Weybridge
• Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
• Glasgow Women's Library
• The Postal Museum, London