The Rotunda - William Smith Museum of Geology in Scarborough was long-listed for the UK’s largest single arts prize, The Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries, worth £100,000.
The ten long-listed museums and galleries were:
- Rotunda – The William Smith Museum of Geology, Scarborough
- The Braid: Arts Centre and Mid-Antrim Museum, Ballymena, Co Antrim
- The Centre of New Enlightenment at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
- Outside the Boxat the Museum of Reading
- Scotland: A Changing Nation at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
- National Trust Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
- Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
- Ruthin Craft Centre: The Centre for the Applied Arts, Denbighshire
- The Sackler Centre for arts education at the V&A, London
- Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
The four shortlisted organisations were announced on 6 May 2009. For more information please visit: www.artfundprize.org.uk... More