Compton Verney took 10 years to complete

Coventry's Transport Museum and the Art Gallery at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, have both been short listed for the Gulbenkian prize.

And Birmingham's Back to Back housing project is also short-listed.

The overall winner of the �100,000 prize, selected by a panel, will be announced on 26 May.

Compton Verney in south Warwickshire was nominated for its conversion from an 18th century mansion into a �64m art gallery.

The Transport Museum was recognised for its multi-million pound refurbishment which has encouraged almost 200,000 people to visit in the first six months of its relaunch.

The 10 shortlisted museums

• Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon for Shapland & Petter of Barnstaple: 150 years

• Big Pit, National Mining Museum of Wales, Blaenafon

• National Trust West Midlands for Back to Backs, Birmingham

• The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge for its Courtyard Development

• Compton Verney, Warwickshire

• Coventry Transport Museum

• Time and Tide, Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

• Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, Lochmaddy, North Uist for its Carn Chearsabhagh Project

• The Foundling Museum, London

• Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon, Co Durham