Grants for museums to acquire contemporary art and increase public access to work by women artists in the UK
This new partnership between the Freelands Foundation and the Art Fund offers grants for UK public museums, galleries, historic houses, libraries and archives to acquire contemporary art and increase public access to work by women artists in the UK and broker new relationships between artists, organisations, museums and their audiences.
For each artist, a grant of up to £50,000 is available to museums to enable the acquisition of one or more work/s.
The Fund will consider applications from public museums, galleries, historic houses, libraries and archives based anywhere in the UK that are:
• Fully or provisionally Accredited through the Arts Council Accreditation scheme or other national equivalents, and
• Open for at least half the week for at least six months of the year.
Most organisations supported will hold collections, which may include fine and applied art and design, archaeology and/or social history. They will also be committed to delivering activity that increases public access to these collections, which has public benefit and aligns with the Art Fund’s charitable objectives.