LONDON.- The Ulster Museum, Belfast was
announced
by judge Kirsty Young as the 2010 winner of The Art Fund Prize for
museums and
galleries. Praised by the judges for its all-round excellence, the
museum beat
three other short-listed institutions, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford;
Blists Hill
Victorian Town, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and The Herbert Art
Gallery and
Museum, Coventry, to win the £100,000 Prize. The Ulster Museum was
awarded the
£100,000 Prize at a reception at RIBA in London, in recognition of
Opening up
the Ulster Museum, a three year, £17.8 million project.