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10 Finalists For £100K Fine Art Fund Prize For Museum Of The Twelvemonth 2013

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Continuing the subject of museums - nosotros straightaway convey the names of the x museums together with fine art galleries selected equally finalists in the £100,000 Tom Thomson together with the Group of Seven
Visitors: In 2011-2012 the Gallery enjoyed its second-highest visitor figures always (149, 000 visitors)
Website: http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/

Location: Gallery Walk, Wakefield West Yorkshire WF1 5AW
Venue: David Chipperfield's £35 1000000 edifice - providing x grayish trapezoidal boxes, each housing a gallery space, laid correct side past times side to the River Calder - which gives it a really impressive appearance (see photograph at top). 
Purpose: One of the UK’s largest purpose-built galleries for populace fine art exterior London.  Unites operate from the city’s fine art collection amongst exhibitions past times contemporary artists together with rarely seen industrial plant past times the renowned sculptor Barbara Hepworth inwards the urban centre where she was born together with grew up
Visitors: Over 385,000 visitors inwards 2012 (more than 900,000 visitors since the gallery opened inwards May 2011)

Location: 100 London Road, Forest Hill London SE23 3PQ (it's non far from Dulwich Picture Gallery)
Venue: three-year unification projection completed inwards 2012 - to unify collections together with gardens
Purpose: A somewhat strange mixture of internationally of import collections of anthropology together with musical instruments summation an acclaimed aquarium together with natural history gallery PLUS 16 acres of landscaped gardens offering dramatic views of London
Visitors: non available

Location: Argyle Street, Glasgow Strathclyde G3 8AG
Venue: £35 1000000 refurbishment inwards 2006, 1 of the pinnacle 100 Art Museums inwards the world
Purpose: home to internationally renowned collections together with exhibitions
Visitors: 10 1000000 visitors, exploring 22 themed galleries, since it reopened inwards 2006
  
Location: Downing Street, Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3DZ
Venue: two-year redevelopment was completed inwards 2012. Recently reopened amongst a novel street entrance together with refurbished the world flooring galleries which brand the collections to a greater extent than accessible to the public
Purpose: One of 1 of 8 accredited University of Cambridge Museums together with Collections. World-class University collections of art, ethnographic artefacts together with archaeological discoveries. The latter duo nearly 2 1000000 years of human history, on all half-dozen inhabited continents. Plus  new display dedicated to the archeology together with history of Cambridge together with its region.
Visitors: 24,596 betwixt 25 May until terminate September 2012 (reduced to museum closure)

Location: Bonded Stores, Church Street, Narberth Pembrokeshire SA67 7BH
Venue: Museum located inwards a lately renovated industrial warehouse (a old bonded stores originally built to household vino together with spirit).
Purpose: The collection celebrates the trades, crafts, organisations, people together with buildings of the Welsh marketplace position town of Narberth.  The museum is a contemporary cultural hub for the local expanse where people tin engage amongst their pasts. It is run mainly past times an enthusiastic together with dedicated squad of volunteers.
Visitors: not available

Location: Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees Cleveland TS18 3RH
Venue: Grade 2 Listed edifice located inwards 100 acres of parkland - opened equally a museum together with commons past times Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council inwards 1953 together with relaunched inwards 2012.  Recent refurbishment, restoration together with redevelopment projection costing £7 1000000  and lasting nearly 3 years has made museum collection more accessible
Purpose: Combination of historic house together with local history museum telling the story of Stockton. Includes community curated space together with the temporary exhibitions gallery.
Visitors: not available - lately reopened
Location: Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow London E17 4PP
Venue: Housed inwards a Georgian house; recent major redevelopment has provided transformed Gallery spaces, novel didactics facilities together with an extension. 
Purpose: the William Morris Gallery is the solely gallery inwards Britain dedicated to the leader of the Arts together with Crafts movement.  It straightaway engages the local community past times displaying Morris together with what he was most past times reinterpreting him for a 21st century audience
Visitors: c.100,000 visitors since it reopened inwards August 2012 amongst tape numbers participating inwards events programme

The Winner....

If you lot head inwards to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row you'll necessitate heed winner volition live announced alive from the laurels ceremony at the V&A museum inwards London on four June 2013.

Museum of the Year Photography Competition

You tin discovery details of how to displace into the Museum of the Year Photography Competition on the Art Fund website.   Check out the pretty overnice prizes which include an iPad!

They're looking for the most innovative, atmospheric together with fifty-fifty humorous images of the 10 museum finalists – from a beautiful prototype of the façade to a snap of your favourite object – your icon exhibit volition creatively capture the spirit of the museum.

Read the terms together with conditions carefully. The lastly telephone band for entries is Midweek fifteen May.

History of the Museum of the Year Prize

The Prize started inwards 2001 when The Museum Prize Trust was ready to practice a major annual prize for museums together with galleries inwards the UK.

The thought was that at that spot would live 1 major together with prestigisous prize rather than several smaller together with lower profile prizes.  The modify involved cooperation between the Museums Association (excellent website!), The Art Fund (current organisers), National Heritage (the museums activity drive - which doesn't seem to convey been really active of late), and the Campaign for Museums (archived website) who all agreed to lend their back upward to a unmarried major Prize.

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