The Dahl museum is among 10 on the longlist

The museum, based in Great Missenden, Bucks, is one of 10 museums competing for the Gulbenkian prize, the largest single arts award in the UK.

Other nominees include the Cambridge and County Folk Museum and London's Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms.

A shortlist will be announced in April and the winner revealed in May.

THE 2006 GULBENKIAN LONGLIST Cambridge and County Folk Museum Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, London Dorchester Abbey Museum, Dorchester-on-Thames Hunterian Museum, London Museum of Flight, East Lothian National Waterfront Museum, Swansea Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Bucks The Collection: Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire, Lincoln SS Great Britain, Bristol Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Others on the list include the Dorchester Abbey Museum, for its display of medieval stones, and Bristol dockyard museum SS Great Britain, on one of the UK's most historic ships.

The Museum of Flight in East Lothian, which tells the story of Concorde, and the Hunterian Museum in London, containing the oldest medical collections in the world, are also up for the prize.

Chair of the judges, Lord Winston, said: "This year's longlist shows how museums and galleries, large and small, throughout the country are continuing to innovate and explore the boundaries.

"We, the judges, face a thrilling if difficult task ahead of us as we visit them over the coming months."