The shortlists for the Art Fund Prize and the new Clore Award for Learning were revealed last month.
The museums in the running for the main prize are: the British Museum (for a History of the World); the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway; the Roman Baths Museum in Bath; and the Polar Museum, Cambridge.
Contenders for the £10,000 learning award are: Weston Park, Sheffield, for With Sheba and Arwa; National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth for Face to Face: the South London Gallery, London for Making Play; the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, for Making Museums; and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, for Culture Shock.
But the museum that topped the public poll has not made it onto the shortlist for the £100,000 accolade. An online public poll saw Manchester’s People’s History Museum gain top spot with 26.3% of the vote.
Chairman of the judges Michael Portillo said: “Choosing a shortlist was not easy but we are agreed that these four museums and galleries exhibit remarkable innovation and flair, which excited us and clearly draws in the general public too.”
The museums in the running for the main prize are: the British Museum (for a History of the World); the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway; the Roman Baths Museum in Bath; and the Polar Museum, Cambridge.
Contenders for the £10,000 learning award are: Weston Park, Sheffield, for With Sheba and Arwa; National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth for Face to Face: the South London Gallery, London for Making Play; the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, for Making Museums; and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne, for Culture Shock.
But the museum that topped the public poll has not made it onto the shortlist for the £100,000 accolade. An online public poll saw Manchester’s People’s History Museum gain top spot with 26.3% of the vote.
Chairman of the judges Michael Portillo said: “Choosing a shortlist was not easy but we are agreed that these four museums and galleries exhibit remarkable innovation and flair, which excited us and clearly draws in the general public too.”