Nottingham Contemporary has missed out on scooping the Art Fund's prestigious £100,000 Museum of the Year prize.
The Weekday Cross gallery, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary, lost to St Fagans National Museum of History, near Cardiff, Wales.
The winning attraction explores the history and culture of the nation and last year completed a £30m redevelopment of the site.
It was praised by judges for "how it lives, breathes and embodies the culture and identity of Wales and by the way it's forged a new and meaningful model of community collaboration".
It will now receive £100,000 following the awards ceremony held at the Science Museum in London tonight (July 3).
Nottingham's own finalist hasn't entirely missed out however as it will still be awarded £10,000 for making the shortlist alongside HMS Caroline, in Belfast, Pitt Rivers Museum, in Oxford and V&A, in Dundee.
More than just an art gallery, the Nottingham Contemporary is also the venue where 60,000 hand-crocheted poppies (lovingly made by you lot), decorated its floor space in a moving tribute to the fallen soldiers of the First World War, on the 100th anniversary of its outbreak.
Each year more than 25,000 people take part in the venue's free learning activities, that's on top of the 26 schools and 4,000 students it annually welcomes to various workshops.
Working in partnership with both of the city’s two universities, Nottingham Contemporary’s programme of public events and research engages with cutting-edge cultural debates and artistic practices.
In the last ten years, the gallery has organised 1,000 free-to-attend public events, supporting original scholarship through diverse collaborations.
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