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[email protected] / 020 7225 4888 Ten museums in the running to win £100,000 as Art Fund Prize 2012 longlist is announced ress release... p Four newly opened museums, three Scottish museums, and everything from cryptography and transport to local history and contemporary sculpture feature on ‘museum of the year’ longlist £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning longlist also announced today The tenth year of the UK’s ‘museum of the year’ award was kick‐started today with the announcement of the ten museums in with a chance of winning £100,000, the UK’s biggest prize for arts and cultural institutions. ress release... p The ten longlisted museums are: Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Bucks.: The Life and Works of Alan Turing M Shed, Bristol: A New Museum for Bristol National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh: National Museum of Scotland Development Riverside Museum, Scotland's Museum of Transport and Travel, Glasgow: Riverside Museum Project Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, Devon: RAMM Development Project ress release... The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: The Hepworth Wakefield p The Holburne Museum, Bath, Somerset: The Holburne Museum Development Project The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh: Portrait of the Nation Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent: Turner Contemporary Watts Gallery, Guildford, Surrey: The Watts Gallery Hope Project The Art Fund Prize 2012 rewards excellence and innovation in museums and galleries in the UK for a project completed or undertaken in 2011. Following a shortlist of four museums to be announced on 14 ress release..