The Gulbenkian Prize 2005
Winner
Big Pit: the National Mining Museum of Wales
Short List
- Big Pit: the National Mining Museum of Wales
- Coventry Transport Museum
- Time and Tide, Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon, Co Durham
Long List
- Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon
- Big Pit, National Mining Museum of Wales, Blaenafon
- National Trust West Midlands, Back to Backs, Birmingham
- The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
- Compton Verney, Warwickshire
- Coventry Transport Museum
- Time and Tide, Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, Lochmaddy, North Uist
- The Foundling Museum, London
- Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon, Co Durham
Judges
- Chair of the Judges: Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College London
- Joan Bakewell CBE, broadcaster and writer
- Sir Neil Chalmers, Warden, Wadham College, Oxford and former Director of the Natural History Museum
- Michael Day, Chief Executive, Historic Royal Palaces
- Sokari Douglas Camp, sculptor
- Victoria Hislop, journalist and novelist
- Dr Elizabeth Mackenzie, Vice-Chairman, British Association of Friends of Museums