Rebecca Atkinson, Young V&A wins European museum prize, Museums Association, 3 December 2025
Meanwhile nominations open for the European Museum of the Year Award 2027.
The Young V&A in London, which reopened in 2023 after a £13m reimagining, has been named the winner of the Council of Europe Museum Prize 2026.
The museum was selected by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe at a meeting in Paris, and the prize will be officially awarded at a ceremony in Strasbourg next April.
Luz Martínez Seijo, the committee representative for the museum prize, said: “The Young V&A is a clearly outstanding museum in terms of its mission to engage visitors with the themes of human rights, equality, participation and cultural democracy.