Months old Newmarket museum up for top award and £100,000 prize

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A museum of horseracing and sporting art in Newmarket that was only opened by the Queen in November will compete against Tate Modern to be named the Art Fund Museum Of The Year 2017.

The National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art has been selected as a finalist for the world's largest museum prize alongside The Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham, Sir John Soane's Museum in London, The Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire and The Tate Modern.

A statue of the Queen was unveiled at her visit. Credit: ITV Anglia.

The winning museum, which will win £100,000, will be announced at a ceremony at the British Museum on July 5.

The other shortlisted museums will receive £10,000 each.

The Victoria and Albert Museum won the prize in 2016.