Gulbenkian Prize

Encyclopedia : G : GU : GUL : Gulbenkian Prize

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 is the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon.

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

External links

[The Gulbenkian Prize]

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.