The National Centre for Citizenship and Law, housed in Nottingham's Galleries of Justice, has won the first ever 100,000 Gulbenkian Prize for museums and galleries.
Key to the centre's work is a series of crime reduction programmes for young offenders and young people at risk of offending. It re-enacts real-life cases and uses an old prison to put crime and punishment into a historical perspective.
There are plans to use the prize to redesign and reinterpret part of the museum, which is housed in a Victorian courthouse and 18th century prison.
Bamber Gascoigne, former presenter of University Challenge, chaired the judging panel. He said the judges were impressed with the "dedication and inventiveness" of the mus-eum in bringing alive the "potentially dry subject of citizenship". The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation funds the prize.
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