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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Brown

Five UK museums ‘alive with ideas and energy’ shortlisted for Art Fund prize

Vintage red and cream-painted tram on a recreated northern high street
At Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, visitors travel through different settings in old trams and buses. Photograph: Design Pics Inc/Alamy

Five UK museums, all “alive with ideas and energy”, in Belfast, Cardiff, Perth, Warwickshire and County Durham are to compete for the world’s largest prize given to a museum.

The Art Fund Museum of the Year prize offers the winner a gamechanging prize of £120,000, with £15,000 going to each of the other finalists.

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