The 2003 shortlist demonstrated the diversity of museum and gallery projects taking place across the country and included some of the most high profile new openings of 2002 as well as smaller community oral history and art programmes

The shortlist was as follows:

Banbury Museum and Tooley's Boatyard Project Banbury, Oxfordshire

The Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Redevelopment Brighton, Sussex

Cast Iron Sculpture Workshops, The Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture Telford, Shropshire

Collections, Communities and Memories Community Project Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham

The Darwin Centre Phase One Natural History Museum, London

Downland Gridshell, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum Chichester, Sussex

Family Falmouth Temporary Exhibition Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall

Manchester Art Gallery Manchester

National Centre for Citizenship The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham

New Hackney Museum London

RRS Discovery Renewal Programme Discovery Point, Dundee

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