The Art Fund Prize 2011 for museums and galleries

Here are the ten museums running for £100,000 Art Fund Prize 2011. See the whole report on the Art Fund Prize website. 

• British Museum, London, A History of the World 
• Hertford Museum, Hertfordshire, Hertford Museum's Development 
• Leighton House, London, Closer To Home: The Restoration and Reopening of Leighton House 
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• Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, Refurbishment and extension of Mostyn gallery
• People's History Museum, Manchester, The new People's History Museum 2010
• Polar Museum, University of Cambridge, Promoting Britain's Polar Heritage
• The new Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, Scotland
• Roman Baths Museum, Bath, Roman Baths Development
• V&A, London, Ceramics Study Galleries
• Yorkshire, Letting in the Light. 

You can express your preferences here.

This year there is also the Clore Award for Museum Learning, supposed to "recognise and celebrate quality, impact and innovation (relative to context) in using museums and galleries for learning activities or initiatives – for formal or informal learning audiences – which focus on the development or deepening of skills, knowledge, understanding, values, ideas, feelings and enjoyment."

This is the long list:

• The Courtauld Gallery, London for Animating Art History 
• Edward Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire for Ghosts in the Atti
• The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh for Air lomlaid / On Exchange
• Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow for Touching Lives
• Keats House, London for Stories of the World 
• Museums Sheffield Weston Park, Sheffield for With Sheba and Arwa (Belonging) 
• National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth for Face to Face: Documenting experiences of conflict .
• The Pitt Rivers and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford for Making Museums.
• South London Gallery, London, for Making Play.  
• Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, Newcastle upon Tyne for Culture Shock .