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Tate St Ives faces onto Porthmeor Beach
A "breathtakingly beautiful" £20m extension to Cornwall's Tate St Ives gallery has earned it the prestigious award for Museum of the Year.
The venue reopened in October after an growth that doubled its gallery area by digging into the cliff face.
That impressed the judges of the Art Fund's annual Museum of the Year award, which comes with a £100,000 prize.
Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar stated the extension was "deeply intelligent and breathtakingly beautiful".
Mr Deuchar, who chaired the judging panel, additionally stated the redevelopment offered "the perfect stage for a curatorial programme that is at once adventurous, inclusive and provocative".
The gallery opened in 1993 to have fun the artists who have been attracted by the mild in the coastal city from the 1930s onwards, together with Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Alfred Wallis and Patrick Heron.
Tate St Ives proved extra in style than anticipated, and plans for an extension have been drawn up 15 years in the past.
Many locals objected to the authentic proposals, nonetheless, with greater than 2,000 signing a petition, saying the scheme would block views of the sea and take up automotive parking area.
So architects determined to dig into the cliff face as an alternative, and the venue was shut for 18 months whereas the work was carried out.
The different shortlisted establishments have been:
- Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey
- Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
- Glasgow Women's Library
- The Postal Museum, London
Last yr's prize was gained by one other place with hyperlinks to Barbara Hepworththe Hepworth Wakefield gallery in the West Yorkshire city the place the sculptor was born.
The Hepworth Wakefield has simply introduced that it'll use its £100,000 prize cash to purchase a sculpture by Turner Prize and Hepworth Prize winner Helen Martens, and to assist remodel neighbouring land into a new public backyard.