A small Pembrokeshire museum that reopened in 2012 after being shut for nine years is among 10 venues battling it out to be named the UK’s museum of the year. Narberth Museum closed in 2003 when its building was sold. Since relocating to a converted industrial warehouse, it has been run largely by volunteers.
The William Morris Gallery is among 10 museums battling for the £100,000 prize
It will battle it out for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize with the £35m Hepworth Wakefield and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. Canterbury’s Beaney House of Art and Knowledge and the Baltic Centre in Gateshead are also nominated.
London is represented on the list by the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Horniman Museum and Gardens and Walthamstow’s renovated William Morris Gallery.
Also in the running are Preston Park Museum in Stockton-on-Tees and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge.
Now in its 11th year, the annual prize rewards “innovation and creativity in bringing objects and collections to life”.
Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar said: “As the national charity for art, we hope that by shining a light on the 10 finalists we’ll encourage people to visit and celebrate these bright beacons of culture across the UK.”
Deuchar is joined on the judging panel by writer and broadcaster Bettany Hughes, Daily Telegraph arts editor Sarah Crompton, historian Tristram Hunt MP and the artist Bob and Roberta Smith.
Last year’s prize was presented to The Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, which reopened in 2011 after a £24m facelift.
This year’s winner will be announced live on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row on 4 June.
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