Michael Portillo has announced the longlist of 10 museum redevelopment projects in the running for the Art Fund Prize 2011.
They are:
• The British Museum, London (for A History of the World)
• Hertford Museum, Hertfordshire
• Leighton House, London
• Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales (for the refurbishment and extension of Mostyn gallery)
• The People's History Museum, Manchester
• The Polar Museum, University of Cambridge
• The new Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, Scotland
• Roman Baths Museum, Bath
• The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London (for the Ceramics Study Galleries)
• Yorkshire Museum, York
Michael Portillo, chair of the Art Fund Prize judges, said: “Making the selection was far from easy, out of an extensive list of strong entries. The result shows a wide geographical spread with museums from Scotland, Wales and a strong representation in the North of England. Equally remarkable is the variety of institutions included from the tiny Hertford Museum to the V&A and British Museum.”
This is the forth year the Art Fund has sponsored the £100,000 competition. A shortlist of four museums will be announced on 19 May with the winning museum awarded the cash prize at a ceremony on 15 June.
Members of the public can vote for their favourite museum online at artfundprize.org.uk.
The Clore Award for Museum Learning
Meanwhile, the longlist for a new award – the Clore Award for Museum Learning – has also been announced.
Supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation, the £10,000 award will recognise and celebrate quality, impact and innovation in using museums and galleries for learning activities and initiatives.
Judged by a separate panel co-chaired by Vivien Duffield, chairman of the Clore Duffield Foundation and executive director Sally Bacon, the longlist comprises:
• The Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne for Culture Shock (digital storytelling project)
• Edward Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire for Ghosts in the Attic: from Smallpox to MMR
• The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow for Touching Lives
• Keats House, London for Stories of the World
• Museums Sheffield Millennium Gallery, Sheffield for With Sheba and Arwa (Belonging)
• National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth for Face to Face: documenting experiences of conflict
• South London Gallery, London for Making Play
• The Courtauld Gallery, London for Animating Art History
• The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh for Air lomlaid/On Exchange
• The Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford for Making Museums
They are:
• The British Museum, London (for A History of the World)
• Hertford Museum, Hertfordshire
• Leighton House, London
• Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales (for the refurbishment and extension of Mostyn gallery)
• The People's History Museum, Manchester
• The Polar Museum, University of Cambridge
• The new Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, Scotland
• Roman Baths Museum, Bath
• The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London (for the Ceramics Study Galleries)
• Yorkshire Museum, York
Michael Portillo, chair of the Art Fund Prize judges, said: “Making the selection was far from easy, out of an extensive list of strong entries. The result shows a wide geographical spread with museums from Scotland, Wales and a strong representation in the North of England. Equally remarkable is the variety of institutions included from the tiny Hertford Museum to the V&A and British Museum.”
This is the forth year the Art Fund has sponsored the £100,000 competition. A shortlist of four museums will be announced on 19 May with the winning museum awarded the cash prize at a ceremony on 15 June.
Members of the public can vote for their favourite museum online at artfundprize.org.uk.
The Clore Award for Museum Learning
Meanwhile, the longlist for a new award – the Clore Award for Museum Learning – has also been announced.
Supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation, the £10,000 award will recognise and celebrate quality, impact and innovation in using museums and galleries for learning activities and initiatives.
Judged by a separate panel co-chaired by Vivien Duffield, chairman of the Clore Duffield Foundation and executive director Sally Bacon, the longlist comprises:
• The Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne for Culture Shock (digital storytelling project)
• Edward Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire for Ghosts in the Attic: from Smallpox to MMR
• The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow for Touching Lives
• Keats House, London for Stories of the World
• Museums Sheffield Millennium Gallery, Sheffield for With Sheba and Arwa (Belonging)
• National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth for Face to Face: documenting experiences of conflict
• South London Gallery, London for Making Play
• The Courtauld Gallery, London for Animating Art History
• The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh for Air lomlaid/On Exchange
• The Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford for Making Museums