Young V&A wins Museum of the Year award

Jenny Waldman, the director of Art Fund, said: ‘The Young V&A has done something completely rare, it’s completely reimagined the museum.’ Photograph: David Parry/Shutterstock

The Young V&A in east London has won the prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year award, fighting off competition from the National Portrait Gallery to win the £120,000 prize.

Judges described the museum as a “truly inspirational” institution that engaged with the local community of Bethnal Green and radically rethought the museum with young people in mind.