Tenth Round of Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund Announced
Fifteen regional galleries and museums have been awarded grants for new exhibitions in the latest round of the Weston Loan Programme with partners Art Fund.
From pre-Raphaelite masterpieces and medieval manuscripts, to one of the most celebrated paintings of the British Enlightenment, we are thrilled to support the display of these national treasures at galleries and museums across the UK – with major loans from national institutions including The British Library, The Courtauld Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, National Gallery, Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum and Wellcome Collection.
Now in its tenth year, the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund is the first UK-wide grant programme designed to directly fund and empower smaller museums to borrow major works from national or major lending museums and galleries.
To date the Programme has supported more than 100 exhibitions at over 120 venues across the UK, providing over £2.2 million of funding to regional museums and galleries and enabling thousands of people to experience nationally significant works in their local museums.
Read the full list of this round’s grantees and exhibitions here.
“It is wonderful to see such a range of art forms, stories and venues represented in this latest round of recipients, from surrealism in Edinburgh, to Norman coins in Somerset. Looking back over a decade of the Weston Loan Programme we are hugely proud to have been able to facilitate the loans of so many precious and impressive publicly held artworks and objects to museums and galleries across the UK, where they have been seen by new audiences and in fresh contexts.”