Gulbenkian Prize
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The Gulbenkian Prize is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a "track record of imagination, innovation and excellence".
The prize money is £100,000, and was first awarded in 2003. The principal sponsor was the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon, Portugal.
Sponsorship of the prize was taken over by The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity, from the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2007. The name changed to the Art Fund Prize as of the 2008 prizes. for museums and galleries will be awarded in May 2008.
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, winner
- 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, Wales
- Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham
- Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn
- Tyne & Wear Museums, Segedunum, Wallsend
2005
- Big Pit, National Mining Museum, Blaenafon, Wales, winner
- Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon
- Back to Backs, Birmingham
- Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
- Compton Verney House, Warwickshire
- Coventry Transport Museum
- Time and Tide: The Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, 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, winner
- 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, Swansea
- 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, London
- Warner Textile Archive, Braintree District Museum, Essex
- Weston Park Museum, Sheffield
- The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University
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