Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – the grant-giving organisation with a long-term reputation for pioneering innovative projects in the arts, social welfare and education. The Foundation has guaranteed the prize money of £100,000 a year for a five-year period, and it is also funding the majority of the administrative costs.

The Foundation’s founder, Calouste Gulbenkian, was one of the most distinguished private collectors in the world. The Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is well-known and loaned several major pieces of Lalique jewellery to the V & A’s highly acclaimed Art Nouveau exhibition in 2000 and simultaneously mounted a major exhibition of its treasures at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Other supporters of the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year 2004

Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE OC
Sir Christopher is a generous supporter of many museum developments and is passionately interested in raising awareness of the range and quality of museums and galleries in the UK.

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
The government-funded strategic body working with and for museums, archives and libraries, tapping the potential for collaboration between them.

Blackwall Green (Jewellery and Fine Art) Limited
Specialists in insurance for museums and galleries.

Lloyds TSB Private Banking

The trustees of the Museum Prize are also grateful to the following for help in kind:

Quentin Blake OBE
D & F Wines Ltd
Ernst & Young
Keeley and Lowe, printers
The 24 Hour Museum
The Museums Association
Waitrose Limited