Gulbenkian Prize

The Gulbenkian Prize, now called the ArtFund Prize,Cite web|url=http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/137749/Ted+Baker+links+up+with+London+Transport+Museum.html|title=Ted Baker Links Up with London Transport Museum|accessdate=2008-03-18|year=2008-02-28|author=Mike Exon|work=Design Week] is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a "track record of imagination, innovation and excellence". A single award of £100,000, Britain's biggest single art prize,Cite web|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,11711,1390668,00.html|title=Industrial Museums Vie for £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize|accessdate=2008-03-18|year=2005-01-14|author=Sean Clarke|work=The Guardian] is presented to a museum or gallery, large or small, anywhere in the UK, whose entry, in the opinion of the judges, best demonstrates a track record of imagination, innovation and excellence through work mainly undertaken during the previous calendar year. The prize money is £100,000, and was first awarded in 2003.Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2261745.stm|title=Museums Get £100,000 Prize|accessdate=2008-03-18|publisher=BBC|year=2002-09-16] The principal sponsor is the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon, Portugal.

List of winners and short-listed entries

2003

* National Centre for Citizenship, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, winner
* Banbury Museum, Banbury, Oxfordshire
* Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Brighton, Sussex
* Cast Iron Sculpture Workshops, Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture Telford, Shropshire
* Collections, Communities and Memories Community Project Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham
* The Darwin Centre Phase One, Natural History Museum, London
* Downland Gridshell, Weald and Downland Open Air Museum Chichester, Sussex
* Family Falmouth Temporary Exhibition, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
* Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
* New Hackney Museum, London
* RRS Discovery, Discovery Point, Dundee

2004

* Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, winnerCite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article996122.ece|title=Show on Wheels Vies for Prize|accessdate=2008-03-18|publisher=Times Online|year=2004-01-16|author=Dalya Alberge|work=The Times]
* Thinktank, Birmingham
* Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
* Sutton House, Hackney
* Henry Moore Institute in association with Leeds Museums and Galleries, Leeds
*Royal Armouries, Leeds
*National Gallery, London
*Prescot Museum, Merseyside
*Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne
*Pembrokeshire Museum Service, WalesCite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4698162.stm|title=Industry Museum Up for Arts Prize|accessdate=2008-03-18|publisher=BBC News|year=2006-02-10]
*Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham
*Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn
*Tyne & Wear Museums, Segedunum, Wallsend

2005

* Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenafon, Wales, winnerCite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/wales/south_east/4172337.stm|title=Big Pit Vies for Museum Award|accessdate=2008-03-18|publisher=BBC News|year=2005-01-14]
* Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon
*Back to Backs, Birmingham
*Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
*Compton Verney House, Warwickshire
*Coventry Transport Museum
*, Great Yarmouth
*Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, Lochmaddy, North Uist
*The Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, London
*Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon, County Durham

2006

* SS Great Britain, Bristol, winnerCite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-146254934.html|title=Brunel's Iron Ship Transformed From Corroded Wreck to Prize-Winner|accessdate=2008-03-18|year=2006-05-26|author=Louise Jury|work=The Independent]
*Cambridge & County Folk Museum
*Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
*Dorchester Abbey Museum, Oxfordshire
*Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London
*Museum of Flight, East Fortune, near Edinburgh
*National Waterfront Museum, SwanseaCite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4698162.stm|title=Industry Museum Up for Arts Prize|accessdate=2008-03-18|publisher=BBC News|year=2006-02-10]
*Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Great Missenden
*The Collection: Art and Archeology, Lincolnshire
*Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield

2007

*Pallant House Gallery, West Sussex, winner
*The De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex
*Horniman Museum, London
*Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
*Historic Royal Palaces, London
*Scotland & Medicine: Collections & Connections, Scotland
*Victoria and Albert Museum, Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, LondonCite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/02/nprize02.xml&DCMP=OTC-Autonolnk|title=Museum Prize Judges Weigh Fish in the Scales|accessdate=2008-03-18|year=2007-02-02|author=Nigel Reynolds|work=Telegraph]
*Warner Textile Archive, Braintree District Museum, Essex
*Weston Park Museum, Sheffield
*The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University

References

ee also

*Europa Nostra

External links

* [http://www.thegulbenkianprize.org.uk/ The Gulbenkian Prize]