THE Yorkshire Museum has been nominated for a prestigious award which could see it win £10,000.

The museum’s Septimius Severus project has been chosen as one of only ten in the country to feature on the Clore Award for Museum Learning 2012 Long List, which recognises quality and innovation in museum learning ventures.

Marking 1,800 years since the Roman Emperor’s death in York, the project was an exhibition which featured film, fashion, poetry and theatre created by young people from York and the Yorkshire area.

Martin Watts, of York Museums Trust, said: “One of the important concepts for the new displays in general and the Roman exhibition in particular was the idea that we could regularly infuse new objects and ideas to refresh the offer. Celebrating Severus was the first real test of this.

“The new interventions, especially the fashion garments inspired by the period and the films, have added hugely to the impact of the gallery.

“Celebrating Severus came at a very exciting moment for the Yorkshire Museum,” he said. “It coincided with the reopening of the museum after a major £2million refurbishment of all the galleries.”

Working with local students and media companies, the project’s coordinator, Aisha Ali Sutcliffe, devised numerous ways for them to create work that featured in the museum early last year, and are now integrated into the museum’s exhibition, Eboracum: Roman York.

She said: “We are very pleased with how people have responded to the project, both those who have taken part and visitors.

“The museum has an internationally important science collection and if we won the prize money it would be used to fund a project for young people to engage with the geological collections.”

A panel of judges will decide which four museums are placed on the shortlist on May 14, with the overall winner of the cash prize announced at an award ceremony at the British Museum in London.