Finalist museum teams at the Prize reception
Penelope Viscountess Cobham, Chairman of Museum Prize Trust; Peter Walker, Keeper and Mine Manager, Big Pit; Doutura Teresa Gouveia, Trustee of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman of Judges; Ceri Thompson, Keeper of Coal, Big Pit.
  Coventry Transport Museum
  Left to right: Roy Shakespeare, Museum Assistant; Samantha Adams, Retail Assistant; Joe Elliott, Chair of the Museum Board of Directors; Paul Maddocks, Exhibition Officer; Sir Neil Chalmers, Gulbenkian Prize Judge; Lucy Rumble, Development Officer; Steve Bagley, Curator; Malcolm Oliver, Deputy Chief Executive; Barry Littlewood, Chief Executive
  
 
  Left to right: L to R: Dr George Muirhead, Museum Manager, Locomotion; Andrew Scott, Head of National Railway Museum; Victoria Hislop, Gulbenkian Prize Judge; The Rt Hon Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Science Museum; Janice Murray, Deputy Head of Museum/Head of Operations, National Railway Museum; Cllr John Robinson, Cabinet Member for Culture and Recreation, Sedgefield Borough Council; Phil Ball, Director of Leisure Services, Sedgefield Borough Council: Cllr Kester Noble, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Sedgefield Borough Council  
Penelope Viscountess Cobham, Chairman of Museum Prize Trust; Peter Walker, Keeper and Mine Manager, Big Pit; Doutura Teresa Gouveia, Trustee of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman of Judges; Ceri Thompson, Keeper of Coal, Big Pit.
  Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon
 
Penelope Viscountess Cobham, Chairman of Museum Prize Trust; Peter Walker, Keeper and Mine Manager, Big Pit; Doutura Teresa Gouveia, Trustee of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman of Judges; Ceri Thompson, Keeper of Coal, Big Pit.
  Time & Tide: The Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
  Left to right: Stephen Earl, Conservation Officer, Great Yarmouth Borough Council; Vanessa Trevelyan, Head of Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service; Rachel Kirk, Area Museums Officer, Great Yarmouth Museums; Sheila Watson; Gill Gracey, Visitor Services Assistant; Tony Wright; James Steward, Maritime Development Officer, Great Yarmouth Museums, and John Davies Chief Curator, Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service.  
 
  Left to right: Dr Eurwyn Wiliam, Deputy Director General, National Museums & Galleries of Wales (NMGW); Ann John, Welsh Assembly Government; Michael Houlihan, Director General, NMGW: Margaret Evans, Welsh Assembly Government; Peter Walker Keeper, Big Pit: John Williams-Davies, Director, NMGW (Social & Industrial History), Paul Loveluck CBE, President, NMGW; Ceri Thompson, Curator, Big Pit; Kathryn Stowers, Marketing Officer, Big Pit.  
Penelope Viscountess Cobham, Chairman of Museum Prize Trust; Peter Walker, Keeper and Mine Manager, Big Pit; Doutura Teresa Gouveia, Trustee of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman of Judges; Ceri Thompson, Keeper of Coal, Big Pit.
  Big Pit: The National Mining Museum of Wales
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