Iain Standen, (right) CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, welcomed the announcement saying, “It is an enormousprivilege for the Bletchley Park Trust that the Turing Exhibition has been long‐listed for this highly prestigious award. I am delighted  this nomination, very fittingly in the Turing Centenary Year, will bring greater attention to the short but brilliant life and work of Alan Turing.” 

Lord Smith (left) of Finsbury, Chair of the Judges, said: “Whittling the achievements of Britain’s museums over the past year down to a list of ten was an unbelievably challenging task. The outstanding quality of the projects that we finally settled on, however, perfectly encapsulates the vitality and dynamism of a part of our nation’s cultural life that continues to innovate, push boundaries and engage the public, even in these straitened times.”
 

The ten longlisted museums are:

• Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Bucks.: The Life and Works of Alan Turing

• M Shed, Bristol: A New Museum for Bristol

• National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh: National Museum of Scotland Development

• Riverside Museum, Scotland's Museum of Transport and Travel, Glasgow: Riverside Museum Project

• Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, Devon: RAMM Development Project

• The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: The Hepworth Wakefield

• The Holburne Museum, Bath, Somerset: The Holburne Museum Development Project

• The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh: Portrait of the Nation

• Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent: Turner Contemporary

• Watts Gallery, Guildford, Surrey: The Watts Gallery Hope Project 

He's hoping for the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Bletchley. But oh goodness, just  think of Turner Contemporary, or the Hepwork Wakefield or M Shed, Bristol and he's got a really sneeky soft spot for the Riverside Museum project in Glasgow too.