A long list of ten museums in the running to win The Art Fund Prize, the UK's single largest arts prize, has been announced.
The long list will be cut to a shortlist of four on 19 May and the winner will be declared Museum of the Year at an awards ceremony on 15 June.
The long list of museums:
• British Museum, London, A History of the World
• Hertford Museum, Hertfordshire, Hertford Museum's Development Project
• Leighton House, London, Closer To Home: The Restoration and Reopening of Leighton House Museum
• Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, Refurbishment and extension of Mostyn gallery
• People's History Museum, Manchester, The new People's History Museum 2010
• Polar Museum, University of Cambridge, Promoting Britain's Polar Heritage
• The new Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, Scotland
• Roman Baths Museum, Bath, Roman Baths Development
• V&A, London, Ceramics Study Galleries
• Yorkshire Museum, York, Letting in the Light - Revitalising the Yorkshire Museum for the 21st century
This year, a new award has also been introduced to run under the umbrella of The Art Fund Prize - the Clore Award for Museum Learning.
The new award is supported by The Clore Duffield Foundation and the winner will be announced during the same ceremony in June.
The long list for the Clore Award is:
• Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne for Culture Shock - digital storytelling project in the North East
• Edward Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire for Ghosts in the Attic - From Smallpox to MMR: an attic room exhibition/installation uniting contemporary art & science
• Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow for Touching Lives - exploring access to collections for visually impaired young people
• Keats House, London for Stories of the World - young people exploring world cultures at Keats House and Garden
• Museums Sheffield Weston Park, Sheffield for With Sheba and Arwa (Belonging) - Engaging communities and young people in a programme of learning and co-curation inspired by the legacy of two great Yemeni queens, Bilqis (Queen of Sheba) and Arwa (Sayyida Hurra), and modern day experiences of UK-Arabic women
• National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth for Face to Face: Documenting experiences of conflict - An innovative film project with primary pupils and veterans exploring the impact of war
• South London Gallery, London, Making Play - Adventures in creative play through contemporary art
• The Courtauld Gallery, London for Animating Art History - an ongoing project which combines art history & animation for 6th Form & BTEC students from families with no prior engagement in higher education
• The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh for Air lomlaid / On Exchange - an artist-led exhibition/education project, involving children from Skye & Edinburgh exploring their language, culture and environment and sharing their experience and inspiring schools throughout Scotland
• The Pitt Rivers and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford for Making Museums - children design and make their own museums, from acquisition to exhibition, celebrating their identities
