UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, 20/20 is a large-scale programme across 20 partner museums reshaping collecting policies, curatorial approaches and institutional practice around decolonisation. The judges agreed this is important, overdue work genuinely moving the dial across the sector.

Birmingham Museums Trust, Citizens Jury: It is a genuinely ground-breaking initiative that set a landmark precedent for the entire sector, already inspiring others to follow suit. This is what it looks like when a museum becomes a truly democratic civic institution.