The shortlists have been announced for the eleven Museums & Heritage Awards for Excellence 2010.
The shortlists have been announced for the eleven Museums & Heritage Awards for Excellence 2010. The winners will be announced at a glittering awards ceremony at Church House, Westminster in London on 12th May.
Now in their eighth successful year, the Museums & Heritage Awards for Excellence recognise and celebrate best practice within museums, galleries and heritage visitor attractions across the UK.
The eleven categories for this year’s awards are: Marketing; Permanent Exhibition; Temporary/Touring Exhibition; Educational Initiative; Innovations; Educational Initiative; Project on a Limited Budget; Restoration/Conservation; the new Winstan Bond Trophy for Entrepreneurial Museum of the Year (sponsored by AIM); the Classic Award for continuous development over more than ten years and the Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Individual.
A further award, the M&H Magazine Readers Award, is made as a result of online voting for the UK’s most popular museum, gallery or heritage attraction opened in 2009. Voting finishes this week on Friday 9th April at: www.mandh-online.com
The shortlists for the Museums & Heritage Awards for Excellence are as follows:
Classic Award
The Roman Baths, Bath
The Complete Working Historic Estate of Shugborough, Staffordshire
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Adult Learning Programmes 1999-2010
MAC - Fife's Mobile Museum, Fife Council Museums
Culture 24 - www.culture24.org.uk
Educational Initiative
Centre of the Cell, Queen Mary University of London/Barts and The London
Object Retrieval, University College London
The British Library, Campaign! Make an Impact
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, The Great Plant Hunt
Falmouth Art Gallery, Darwin 200 Celebrations
Innovations Award
The British Library, Timelines: Sources from History
IVC Media, Attenborough Studio at the Natural History Museum, London
English Heritage, The Home of Charles Darwin, Down House
British Music Experience
Antenna Audio, Love Art Iphone App
International Award
Khasab Castle, Ministry of Tourism, Sultanate of Oman
Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren, Province of Limburg, Belgium
MET Studio Design Ltd, Manchester United Experience, Macau
Electrosonic, The Heineken Experience, Amsterdam
D J Willrich Ltd, Ring Werk, Nuerburgring Germany
Marketing Campaign
The Scotch Whisky Experience, Edinburgh
Great North Museum, Tyne & Wear Museums
'Endless Form', Charles Darwin, Natural Science & the Visual Arts, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Take Another Look, National Portrait Gallery, London
Ulster Museum Reopening Campaign, National Museums Northern Ireland
Permanent Exhibition
Opening up the Ulster Museum
Great North Museum, Tyne & Wear Museums
Cocoon, Natural History Museum
The Blists Hill Victorian Town Development, Ironbridge Gorge Museums
Medieval + Renaissance Galleries, Victoria & Albert Museum
The Ashmolean, Oxford
Project on a Limited Budget
Tom Paine Festival, Diss Museum, Norfolk
Ghost Town Gallery, Coventry Transport Museum (ID Ess)
Special Exhibition Gallery, Royal Observatory Greenwich, National Maritime Museum
Bexhill Museum, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex (RFA Designers)
Above the Clouds - Mallory & Irvine and the Quest for Everest, The Salt Museum, Northwich, Cheshire
Restoration/Conservation
The Conservation and restoration of Master Bertram’s Triptych of the Apocalypse, V&A
Diana Fountain, Bushy Park (Martin Ashley Architects)
Marianne North Gallery. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Donald Insall Associates)
Aston Hall & Park, Birmingham
Queen Anne's Summerhouse, Shuttleworth Estate, Bedfordshire (The Landmark Trust)
Temporary or Touring Exhibition
Banksy vs Bristol Museum, Banksy and Bristol City Museum
Henry v111: Dressed to Kill, Royal Armouries
® Evolution of Urban Art, Warrington Museum
Suburbia, London Transport Museum
Maharaja: the Splendour of India’s Royal Courts (Urban Salon)
Winstan Bond Trophy for the Entrepreneurial Museum of the Year
(Sponsored by the Association for Independent Museums)
Conferencing at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon (British Motor Industry Heritage Trust)
Get on Board (The Mary Rose Trust/Portsmouth Football Club)
Eileen Soper’s Illustrated Worlds, Poole, Dorset (Ginger Pop Ltd)
Brunel Institute - Conservation and Learning Centre, SS Great Britain, Bristol
The Museum as Social Enterprise - a new Business model for museums, Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket
Further information about the Museums & Heritage Awards can be viewed at www.museumsandheritage.com
