In April 2007, The Art Fund announced it had committed £5 million to a new initiative, Art Fund International, to develop collections of international contemporary art in UK regional museums and galleries.
The scheme sought to encourage museums and galleries which house permanent collections to work in partnership with contemporary arts organisations.
On 5th November 2007 the winning projects were announced at a breakfast reception in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. The successful partnerships which have been allocated £1 million each to spend over the next five years are:
º Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives in partnership with Arnolfini
º Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow in partnership with The Common Guild
º Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) in partnership with The Drawing Centre, New York º Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne in partnership with Photoworks, Brighton Photo Biennial and Artsway º The West Midlands Partnership: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and New Art Gallery Walsall in partnership with Ikon
To read more about the announcement and the details of the partnerships and
their projects please read the full press release.
