The shortlist for this year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been announced and includes three galleries that show the work of contemporary artists.
The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, The Hepworth Wakefield and the William Morris Gallery – which has a temporary exhibition space for contempory work – are all up for the award, the winner of which will be announced on 4 June.
The prize celebrates the innovative and creative ways that museums bring objects and collections to life, focusing specifically on activity undertaken in 2012.
In addition to the Museum of the Year prize, one of the finalists will receive the Clore Award for Learning, in recognition of achievements in learning programmes for children and young people.
From now until the end of May, the prize’s five judges (including artist Bob and Roberta Smith) will visit all ten of the museums before deciding on a winner.
The other museums on the shortlist are: Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Horniman Museum & Gardens, London; Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge; Narberth Museum, Pembrokeshire; and Preston Park Museum, Stockton-on-Tees.
For more information on the shortlisted museums, visit www.artfund.org
