V&A Dundee, the spaceship-like £80m museum that was one of the highest-profile new cultural buildings of 2018, has been nominated for the UK’s most lucrative arts prize. The Art Fund has revealed a shortlist of five nominees for the Museum of the Year prize, which is worth £100,000 to the winner. Along with Dundee, the 2019 prize will be contested by HMS Caroline in Belfast, Nottingham Contemporary, Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff. Organisers of the Art Fund prize said there were several “watershed moments” for the gallery last year, including a strong exhibition programme. Last year it completed a £30m redevelopment to become Wales’s national museum of history, opening new galleries and workshop spaces.

Source: The Guardian April 25, 2019 18:45 UTC