Museum in running for top prize

The Time and Tide Museum is in line to win £100,000

A Norfolk museum has been selected as one of four finalists for a top museum of the year award.

The Time and Tide Museum of Great Yarmouth Life in Norfolk is a contender for the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize £100,000 award.

Other finalists include The National Mining Museum of Wales, the Coventry Transport Museum, and the National Railway Museum in Durham.

A winner will be selected on 26 May at the Royal Institute of Architects.

Finalists were chosen from a shortlist of 10.

Chair of the judges Sir Richard Sykes said: "In telling the stories of working people up and down the land, the Gulbenkian finalists have helped us understand and take pride in our own histories.

"Museums that tell these stories well have created a new audience of museum-goers and have turned the stereotype of an exclusive, quiet and intimidating experience on its head."