Museums prize diary
Charlotte Higgins and Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller visit the 10 museums nominated for the Art Fund prize, to be announced in June 2011
British Museum wins Art Fund prize
Museum in London takes £100,000 prize for its BBC-partnered A History of the World series and use of new technology
The hunt for the best British museum
What's the best museum in Britain? To find out, Charlotte Higgins travelled the country with Michael Portillo and Jeremy Deller
People's History Museum: long live democracy!
Trade-union banners, textiles, maps and letters – the revamped Manchester museum is a fascinating journey into the struggle for British democracy
Oriental splendour: Leighton House
Charlotte Higgins: What a joy to wallow in the magnificent, lush interiors created by Frederic, Lord Leighton
Cold comfort: the Polar Museum, Cambridge
The Polar Museum in Cambridge tells a rich and often tragic story of man's attempts to explore and conquer the poles
Speaking stones: the Roman Baths at Bath
On our latest judges' trip to visit projects longlisted for the Art Fund museums prize, Jeremy Deller and I came face to face with some toga-wearing Romans
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum: a not so tim'rous beastie
For the third of our judges' visits to projects longlisted for the Art Fund museums prize, Jeremy Deller and I headed to Alloway to the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
Yorkshire Museum: Roman holiday
The museum they made with their bare hands: in the second of our visits to the projects longlisted for the Art Fund museums prize, Jeremy Deller and I travel to York
Hertford Museum: a cabinet of curiosities
For the first of our visits to the projects longlisted for the Art Fund museums prize, Jeremy Deller and I head to the small local museum that houses the UK's largest toothbrush collection
