InPark Magazine is in Atlanta at the America Alliance of Museums (AAM) 2015 conference and MuseumExpo. Visit us in booth #1115 to say hello and pick up a copy of our Museum issue! Martin Palicki and Judith Rubin are there.
Judith attended the annual Muse Awards, presented by the AAM Media & Technology Board. Here are all the categories and winners.
Photo at top: Skin and Bones is an augmented reality app that brings a new experience to the oldest exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History – the Bone Hall.
Applications & APIs
Bronze – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: 4 Stories Issue 1
Silver – National September 11 Memorial Museum: Timescape
Gold – Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Enterprise content management system
Audio Tours & Podcasts
Honorable Mention – National September 11 Memorial Museum: Witnessing History Tour audio guide
Bronze – Phillips Collection: Contemplations audio tour
Silver – Peabody Essex Museum: PEMcast
Gold – RISD Museum Channel audio tour
Digital Communities
Bronze – Royal Ontario Museum #FNLROM (Friday Night Live ROM)
Silver – Public Catalogue Foundation “Art Detective” smart catalog
Gold – SF MOMA “Play Artfully”
Education & Outreach
Honorable Mention – Metropolitan Museum of Art “One Met. Many Worlds.”
Bronze – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History “Smithsonian Science How” webcasts
Silver – Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House “Learning TRAILS”
Gold – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art “Museum Mash Up: American Identity through the Arts”
Games & Augmented Reality
Bronze – Canadian Museum for Human Rights “Actions Count” interactive game table
Silver – Canadian Museum for Human Rights “Lights of Inclusion” floor game
Gold – Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History “Skin & Bones” augmented reality
Interpretive Interactive Installations
Honorable Mention – National September 11 Memorial Museum: Reflecting on 911 and Recording Studio
Honorable Mention – National Palace Museum: Children’s NPM digital playground
Bronze – College Football Hall of Fame “All Access”
Silver – National Center for Civil & Human Rights: Binaural Lunch Counter interactive
Gold – Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum: The New Cooper-Hewitt
Mobile Apps
Bronze – Museum Victoria & partners: Making Australia Field Guides Mobile
Silver – Peabody Essex Museum: Turner’s Apothecary Mood-o-Meter
Gold – Canadian Museum for Human Rights mobile app
Multimedia Installations
Honorable Mention – National September 11 Memorial Museum: Listening Alcoves
Bronze – Field Museum Biomechanics Heat Theater
Silver – Norsk Teknisk Museum: TWG Techno & Democracy
Gold – The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Charles James: Beyond Fashion
Online Presence
Bronze – Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum: Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extravehicular Activity
Silver – Indianapolis Museum of Art: Online collection
Gold – Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum: TheStoryofTexas.com
OPEN – spreading museum information through the public domain
Bronze – Europeana Foundation: Fashion Edit-a-Thons
Silver – Wikimedia UK & British Library: Mapping the Maps
Gold – Europeana Foundation: GLAMwiki Toolset
Public Outreach
Bronze – Ohio History Connection: Your Tax Return Can Make History
Silver – Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Q?rius School Programs
Gold – SF MOMA: Where Art Can Take You
Video, Film & Computer Animation
Honorable Mention – Treblinka Museum “Treblinka”
Honorable Mention – National Museum Warsaw: Faras 3D
Bronze – J Paul Getty Museum: The Making of a Roman Silver Cup
Silver – Field Museum: How We Learned to Fly Like the Birds
Gold – Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum: “The Design Dictionary”
Interactive Kiosks
Honorable Mention – Elmhurst Historical Museum: Elmhurst History in Time & Space
Honorable Mention – National Museum of the Great Lakes: “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
Bronze – Liberty Science Center: Beyond Rubik’s Cube Tesselation Table
Silver – National September 11 Memorial Museum: Beam Signing interactive
Gold – Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum Responsibility Theater