The Art Fund Prize awards £100,000 each year to a single museum or gallery for a project that wows the judges through its excellence, originality and imagination.

The British Museum won the prize for its groundbreaking A History of the World in a 100 Objects series.

The judges praised the way A History of the World reached far beyond the London museum’s walls, and its pioneering use of digital resources to generate huge public engagement.

At the centre of A History of the World was a 100-part series on BBC Radio 4 (which you can still download now!), telling a narrative global history through British Museum objects from two million years ago to the present day. The British Museum, the BBC and more than 550 museums across the country came together in an ambitious partnership that captured the imagination of millions of people around the world.

I feel really proud that one of London’s greatest institutions has won this top accolade, and was a big fan of the Radio 4 shows.

Read more about A History of the World in 100 Objects. Did you follow the series when it was on Radio 4?

A must-see for all London Underground geeks this week: David Leboff offers a guided tour round St Mary’s in East London, one of the tube network’s least well-known or visited disused stations.

This video is part of BBC Radio 4′s brilliant London: Another Country? season, which comes to an end this weekend. (But you can listen again!)

St Mary’s is just one of the capital’s hidden gems highlighted by historian Dan Cruickshank in The London Nobody Knows. (Listen to the programme here.)