The William Morris Gallery, which reopened last year at the childhood home of the British Arts and Crafts pioneer following a £5 million overhaul, has been named Museum of the Year.

The parkland villa in Walthamstow, East London, took the £100,000 prize, awarded by the Art Fund to the institution which has demonstrated excellence and innovation over the previous year.

The Georgian house now incorporates touchscreens and interactive activities to illuminate Morris’s passion for philosophy and radical politics as well as his famous wallpaper designs.

Transformed from local gem to world-class attraction, the William Morris Gallery has been awarded the prestigious title of Museum of the Year for its major renovation and creative reinterpretation of the life and work of Morris – the revolutionary Victorian designer and social activist – for a diverse range of 21st century audiences.
 

PRS/GuM won the prize for best Permanent Exhibition for the William Morris Gallery in the 2013 Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence, at a ceremony held at 8 Northumberland, London on 15th May 2013.

PRS have been appointed to design the Poplar Baths Leisure Centre and the Haileybury Youth Centre for Guildmore and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Tower Hamlets council have chosen Guildmore to transform historic Poplar Baths building into a brand new Leisure Centre, including 60 new flats.
The plan also includes the transformation of the existing Haileybury Youth centre at Dame Colet into a state of the art Youth Centre, where we will build a further 40 flats and a new youth centre.

On 2 April 2013 the William Morris Gallery was announced as one of the ten finalists battling it out for this prestigious award. The Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2013 is the UK’s largest arts prize, celebrating the very best museums and galleries, highlighting and rewarding the innovative and creative ways they bring objects and collections to life for the public.

Artist Jacqueline Poncelet has covered a monolithic substation in glossy, colourful patterns that reflect the local history and culture

The William Morris Gallery has been shortlisted for the Museums & Heritage Awards 2013 in the Permanent Exhibition category. The Awards ceremony will be held on 15th May 2013.

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The William Morris Gallery and Fort Nelson Projects were both shortlisted as Regional Finalists for the 2013 Civic Trust Awards. These are projects that were considered to be of merit at a regional level by the Civic Trust's local assessor teams.