art fund prize 2010
The Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries 2010 The Royal Institution of Great Britain, for Science in the Making Main Foyer
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The Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries 2010 The Ulster Museum
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An education in culture
The long-list for the Art Fund Prize 2010 has been announced and it certainly lives up to its name.
The Art Fund Prize for Muse- ums and Galleries is the largest single Arts Prize in the UK. This year, applications were submit- ted in their droves and whittling down the stunning applicants to a concise long list proved a difficult task for the judging panel, headed up by Broadcaster, Kirsty Young. The £100,000 prize is awarded to the museum or gallery for a project completed in the last year that demonstrates the most originality, imagination and excellence. The Prize, which has been sponsored by the UK’s leading independent art charity, The Art Fund, for three years, aims to increase public appreciation and enjoy- ment of the UK’s museums and galleries. The Judges will travel the UK to visit each of the eleven long-listed museums and galleries before selecting a short list of four, to be an- nounced at the end of May 2010. The winner of the £100,000 prize will be an- nounced on Wednesday 30 June 2010 at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The Ashmolean Museum is one of the great university museums of the world that extends and enhances public access to its remarkable col- lections of art and archaeology and is nominated for an ambitious rede- velopment. The sensitively executed £61 million redevelopment, de- signed by award-winning Rick Mather Architects, has extended the Grade1 listed building to provide 39 new galleries, an education centre, rooftop restaurant, conservation studios, study rooms and stores.
Design team: Rick Mather Architects; Metaphor Design, exhibition design.
Blists Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge Museum Trust
Blists Hill Victorian Town is the Iron- bridge Gorge Museum Trust’s largest site totalling 54 acres, and presents life in a typical town of the East Shropshire Coalfield around 1900. The £12 million development of Blists Hill has seen the creation of a landmark Visitor Centre and World Heritage Site exhibition, a new street of shops and trades, a clay- mining experience, a narrow gauge railway and an incline lift.
Design team: Osborne Chartered
22 Architects Choice
Architects, Bright White Ltd, Centre Screen, Nash Partnership
Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
Great North Museum is a major new museum for the North East of Eng- land, which sees three outstanding collections of natural history, archae- ology and world cultures combined for the first time in the refurbished Grade II listed Hancock Museum. The collections are from the original Hancock Museum, Newcastle Uni- versity’s Museum of Antiquities and the Shefton Museum. The Universi- ty’s Hatton Gallery is also part of Great North Museum and remains in its existing building.
Design team: Terry Farrell and Partners, architects; Casson Mann, exhibition design.
Hampton Court Palace, London for Henry VIII: heads and hearts Historic Royal Palaces
In 2009, independent charity His- toric Royal Palaces celebrated the anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession with Henry VIII: head and hearts at Hampton Court Palace, the most ambitious programme of exhibi- tions, events, displays and preparatory conservation work it had ever staged at the King’s former
royal residence. Henry VIII: head and hearts involved 38 original projects which contributed to the permanent transformation of the palace, includ- ing the re-presentation of the Tudor State Apartments, the creation of a Tudor Garden, the restoration of Base Court, the opening of the King’s Council Chamber to the public for the first time, the 'virtual restoration' of one of Henry's 500-year-old tapestries and new Tudor-inspired uniforms for warders.
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry Heritage and Arts Trust
The Herbert re-launched in October 2008 following a £20 million rede- velopment of the existing building. The new space incorporates an atri- um, seven new permanent galleries, a History Centre, creative media stu- dios, education spaces, temporary exhibition galleries, collections stores and other visitor facilities.
Design team: Pringle, Ricards and Sharratt, architects; Event Com- munications, exhibition design.
The Leach Pottery, Bernard Leach (St Ives) Trust Ltd
Founded by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in 1920, by 2005 The Leach Pottery was faced with closure. The Leach Restoration Proj-
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