The V&A Dundee is among five museums across the UK to be shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year award.
Scotland’s first design museum and the UK’s first outside London opened to the public in September last year. The V&A in London won the prize in 2016.
The other museums on the list are HMS Caroline in Belfast, Nottingham Contemporary, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and St Fagans National Museum of History.
The winning museum will be awarded £100,000 and will be announced at the Science Museum on July 3. The other four institutions will receive £10,000.
The annual prize is presented to a museum that, in the eyes of the judges, has shown “‘exceptional imagination, innovation and achievement”.
The judging panel for the prize is chaired by Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar and includes artist David Batchelor, journalist Brenda Emmanus, director of the Warburg Institute Bill Sherman and chief of charity Glasgow Life Bridget McConnell.
Deuchar said: “Despite (or perhaps because of) the complex environment of our times, the UK’s museums continue to challenge and inspire. The five shortlisted museums have each offered outstanding and different approaches to the vital task of engaging with the widest public in new and adventurous ways. We congratulate all those who are on the shortlist and encourage everyone to go and visit them.”
Last year's winner was Tate St Ives, which reopened the previous year following a £20 million redevelopment.
