Ditchling Museum and Tate Britain vie for Art Fund Prize

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The nominees are (clockwise from top left): The Ditchling Museum, the Hayward Gallery, the Mary Rose Museum, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Tate Britain and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual ArtsImage source, Marc Atkins
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The nominees are (clockwise from top left): The Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, the Hayward Gallery, the Mary Rose Museum, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Tate Britain and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

A village museum in East Sussex will go up against Tate Britain and the new £35m Mary Rose Museum in a contest to be named the UK's museum of the year.

The Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, which celebrates the village's creative heritage, is among the six nominees for this year's Art Fund Prize.

The other nominees include the Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.

Norwich's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and the open-air Yorkshire Sculpture Park complete the shortlist.

The winning venue will receive £100,000 at a ceremony on 9 July.

Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar said UK museums had a "strong year" in 2013 and picking six nominees was "no easy task".

"It is almost as if imaginative and innovative curatorship, combined with the highest standards of presentation, is no longer the exception but the rule," he said.

The nominees are:

The award was launched in 2003 as the Gulbenkian Prize and became the Art Fund Prize in 2008. Last year's winner was the William Morris Gallery in north-east London.

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