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Tuesday 30 September 2014

Bletchley Park nominated for £100,000 national museums award

The ten museums longlisted for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize 2012 have been announced, with not a single institution in London in the running.

The main house at Bletchley Park
The main house at Bletchley Park Photo: John Lawrence

Bletchley Park, the historic home of Second World War codebreaking and the birthplace of the modern computer, has been nominated for the Art Fund Prize 2012.

The annual £100,000 prize, which is the only award of its kind and was last year won by London's British Museum, is awarded for an original project undertaken or completed the previous year.

Bletchley Park museum has been nominated for the exhibition ‘The Life and Works of Alan Turing’. Turing is famous for his code-breaking work at Bletchley Park during World War II, helping to create the Bombe machine which cracked messages enciphered using the German Enigma code.

Last February the National Heritage Memorial Fun donated £200,000 to save Turing's handwritten papers, which went on show in an exhibition at the Victorian mansion shortly after.

Britain has historically kept its funding resources in major cities, most notably London. But this year's prestigious Art Fund Prize longlist reflects a wind change, with brand new museums in Margate and Wakefield making the cut.

The Hepworth Wakefield and The Turner Contemporary, both designed by architect David Chipperfield, are examples of sleekly modern new cultural centres that were backed by the Labour government to encourage regional development.

Other notable museums in the running for this year's prize are Bristol's new local history museum M Shed, a £27 million project that has attracted 450,000 visitors since it opened in June last year, and The National Portrait Gallery in Scotland which reopened in November after a two year, £17.6 million revamp.

The Art Fund Prize is administered by The Museum Prize, a charitable company created in 2001 and chaired by Lady Cobham. This year's winner will be announced in June.

Longlist

Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Bucks: The Life and Works of Alan Turing

The Hepworth WakefieldThe Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: The Hepworth Wakefield

The Holburne MuseumThe Holburne Museum, Bath, Somerset: The Holburne Museum Development Project

M ShedM Shed, Bristol: A New Museum for Bristol

The National Galleries of ScotlandThe National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh: Portrait of the Nation

National Museum of ScotlandNational Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh: National Museum of Scotland Development

Riverside MuseumRiverside Museum, Scotland's Museum of Transport and Travel, Glasgow: Riverside Museum Project

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art GalleryRoyal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, Devon: RAMM Development Project

Turner ContemporaryTurner Contemporary, Margate, Kent: Turner Contemporary

Watts GalleryWatts Gallery, Guildford, Surrey: The Watts Gallery Hope Project

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