• The Museum of the Year Award, formerly known as the Gulbenkian Prize and the Art Fund Prize, is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the...
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    museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all funds generated by ticket sales aid the museum in curating...
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    as the winner of the 2014 European Museum of the Year Award. The narrative and the museum offer a glimpse into upper-class Istanbul life from the 1970s...
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    The Riverside Museum (replacing the preceding Glasgow Museum of Transport) is a museum in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, housed in a building...
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    The European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) is presented each year by the European Museum Forum (EMF) under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The...
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    POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Polish: Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich) is a museum on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. The Hebrew word...
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    The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by a range of modern pagans, marking the year's chief solar events (solstices...
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    named the Art Fund Museum of the Year in 2019. The museum was founded in 1946 following the donation of the castle and lands by the Earl of Plymouth. It opened...
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    Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered...
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    registered charity under English law. In 2022 the museum won Museum of the Year, an award made by the Art Fund. The museum was founded in 1901 by Frederick John...
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    The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York, England, forming part of the Science Museum Group. The museum tells the story of rail transport...
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    The FIFA World Player of the Year was an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, between 1991 and 2015 at the...
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    Green in the East End of London, and specialises in objects by and for children. In 2024 it was awarded the Museum of the Year prize. The museum was founded...
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    Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring...
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    The DDR Museum is a museum in the centre of Berlin. The museum is located in the former governmental district of East Germany, right on the river Spree...
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    The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official museum of the United States Air Force...
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    broader narrative of human emotional experiences. In 2011, the museum was awarded the Kenneth Hudson Award for European Museum of the Year, for Europe's most...
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    opened in March 1997 as the Thackray Medical Museum. In 1998 it won "Museum of the Year" and has other awards including in 2004 both the "Excellence in England...
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    Städel (redirect from Stadel Museum)
    association AICA. In the same year the museum recorded the highest attendance figures in its history, of 447,395 visitors. In 2020 the museum had 318,732 visitors...
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  • Thumbnail for Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award
    In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is given annually to two outstanding rookie players, one each for the American League (AL) and National...
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    national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021. Although...
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    1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0...
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    The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world...
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  • day of the year: February 29 only occurs in leap years. This day is added to the calendar as a corrective measure because the Earth does not orbit the Sun...
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    The Burrell Collection is a museum in Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. It houses the art collection of Sir William Burrell and Constance...
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    Gölcük. The Museum granted 2020 European Museum of the Year Special Appreciation Award and the European Museum Academy Special Award. Troy Museum is situated...
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    of the project. The museum was named the European Museum of the Year in 1995. After 23 months of renovation between 2012 and 2013, the Olympic Museum...
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    The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsteːdələk myˈzeːjʏm ˌɑmstərˈdɑm]; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk...
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    by Hans Holbein the Younger. Art Fund sponsors the Museum of the Year award (known as the Gulbenkian Prize from 2003 to 2007 and the Art Fund Prize from...
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    The Neanderthal Museum is a museum in Mettmann, Germany. It was established in 1996. Located at the site of the first Neanderthal man discovery in the...
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