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[tab title=”2016 MUSE Awards”]Arlington, VA, USA — MUSE awards recognize outstanding achievement in Galleries, Libraries, Archives or Museums (GLAM) media. The international Alliance Media & Technology Professional Network’s annual awards are presented to institutions or independent producers who use digital media to enhance the GLAM experience and engage audiences. The MUSE awards celebrate scholarship, community, innovation, creativity, education and inclusiveness.
Audio Tours and Podcasts
Gold: The Broad Museum
Artists on Artists Audio Tour
Silver: Chicago History Museum
Chicago Authored
Bronze: Whitney Museum of American Art
Frank Stella Kids Audio Guide
Honorable Mention: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery 742
Digital Communities
Gold: Smithsonian Institution Office of the Chief Information Officer
Smithsonian Institution Transcription Center
Silver: Bullock Texas State History Museum
Texas Story Project
Honorable Mention: The Museum of Modern Art
#ArquiMoMA
Honorable Mention: Textile Museum of Canada
Making Makers
Education and Outreach
Gold: Philadelphia Museum of Art
A Is for Art Museum
Silver: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Beam Tours: Telepresence Robot Tours to Broaden Accessibility
Bronze: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
#MetKids: Made For, With, and By Kids
Honorable Mention: Corning Museum of Glass
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking
Honorable Mention: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
Air Force One Discovery Center
Games and Augmented Reality
Gold: Sydvestjyske Museer
Augmenting the Historic City: Trade and Merchants’ Life in Ribe
Silver: Discovery Cube Los Angeles
Inspector Training Course
Bronze: Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Ripped Apart: A Civil War Mystery
Honorable Mention: Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Museum
Art of Food
Interactive Kiosks
Gold: The George Washington University Museum, The Textile Museum
Common Threads
Silver: Minnesota Historical Society
Suburbia Touch Table Interactive
Bronze: Asian Art Museum
CSI and the Buddha
Honorable Mention: The Field Museum
Qingming Scroll
Interpretive Interactive Installations
Gold: The Tech Museum of Innovation
Body Metrics
Silver: National Palace Museum
Giuseppe Castiglione: Lang Shining New Media Art Exhibition
Bronze: Levine Museum of the New South
¡NUEVOlution! Latinos and the New South
Honorable Mention: The Art Institute of Chicago
Van Gogh’s Bedrooms
Honorable Mention: Miami Children’s Museum
Sketch Aquarium
Mobile Applications
Gold: Brooklyn Museum
ASK Brooklyn Museum
Silver: The New York Botanical Garden
FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, Life
Bronze: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Slavery at Monticello: Life and Work on Mulberry Row
Honorable Mention: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
CB Outdoors
Multimedia Installations
Gold: El Paso Museum of History
DIGIE
Silver: National Museum of Australia
Kspace
Bronze: Columbus Earth Theater
Columbus Earth Theater
Online Presence
Gold: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Artist Project
Silver: The Henry Ford
The Henry Ford Website
Bronze: Ford’s Theatre
Remembering Lincoln
Honorable Mention: British Film Institute
Britain on Film
Honorable Mention: SFMOMA
The New sfmoma.org
Honorable Mention: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice
Open Culture
Honorable Mention: Getty Research Institute, Getty Web Group
Pietro Mellini’s Inventory in Verse, 1681
Public Outreach
Gold: J. Paul Getty Trust
#GettyInspired
Silver: Trust for the National Mall
Voices from the National Mall
Bronze: The Broad Museum
The Broad’s Un-Private Collection Series Streaming
Video, Film, and Computer Animation
Gold: The Field Museum
The Switch: A Bill Stanley Story
Silver: American Museum of Natural History
Shelf Life
Bronze: Museum of Modern Art
Modern Art & Ideas
Honorable Mention: National Park Service/Harpers Ferry Center, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
The Tuskegee Airmen: Sacrifice and Triumph
Honorable Mention: Seattle Art Museum
Disguise: Masks & Global African Art
Honorable Mention: San Diego Natural History Museum
Punk Skunk Series
Honorable Mention: National Palace Museum
Adventures of the Mythical Creatures
at the National Palace Museum
Jim Blackaby Memorial Award
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[tab title=”2016 Excellence in Exhibition Awards”]Arlington, VA, USA – Ten museum exhibitions have gained accolades in the 28th annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition, presented by the American Alliance of Museums. Top exhibitions included:
Overall Award Winners
- National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC – “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations”
- San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA – “Coast to Cactus in Southern California”
Special Achievement
- Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN – “National Geographic Sacred Journeys”
- Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO – “Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio”
- Museum of Science, Boston, MA – “The Science Behind Pixar”
- National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD – “Living Seashore”
- National Museum of American History, Washington, DC – “Object Project”
- Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA – “Pacific Worlds”
- Long Island Children’s Museum, Garden City, NY – “Broken? Fix It!”
- North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum, Bismarck, ND – “Innovation Galleries: Early Peoples”
Read more about the winning exhibitions.
“This year we received a record-setting 37 exhibition entries from around the world and across the museum field,” said Stacey Swigart, curator of collections at Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia, who served as the competition coordinator. “We saw entries from museums of art, botanical, history, music, children’s, science and more. The exhibition entries showed the commitment of the museum field to continually push the boundaries of what exhibitions can and should be.”
The awards will be presented in a ceremony May 27 at the AAM 2016 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in Washington, DC.
Awards are sponsored by four of AAM’s Professional Networks including the Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE), Curators Committee (CurCom), Education Committee (EdCom) and National Association of Museum Exhibition (NAME).[/tab]
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