Ulster Museum in Belfast wins £100,000 Art Fund Prize

'The Belfast museum beat three other short-listed institutions, including the UK's oldest museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford, as well as Blists Hill Victorian Town in Ironbridge and the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry. Tim Cooke, Director of National Museums Northern Ireland, said, “This is the first time in Northern Ireland’s history that a prestigious cultural prize of this nature has been awarded to an institution in the region."'