Regional museums beat London to Art Fund prize shortlist

Four regional projects have beaten the £75m Darwin centre at the Natural History Museum to the shortlist for the £100k Art Fund museum prize. The four are: the £20m relaunch of the Herbert Art Gallery and museum in Coventry; the £17.8m redisplay of the Ulster Museum in Belfast; the £61m transformation of the Ashmolean in Oxford; and a £12m development of Blists Hill at Ironbridge Gorge, recreating Victorian life. The £22m redisplay of the Royal Institution and Hampton Court's 500th anniversary of Henry VIII becoming king were not shortlisted. The winner will be announced on 30 June. • This article was amended on 14 May 2010. The original referred to the £100m Art Fund museum prize. This has been corrected.