The winners of this year’s Museum and Heritage Awards have been announced, reflecting outstanding practice in conservation and heritage throughout the UK.
The full list of winners (as published on the Museums and Heritage Show website):
Outstanding contribution by an individual
- Winner- Michael Day, Chief Executive, Historic Royal Palaces
Customer service
- Winner- Kent Life Heritage Farm Park, More than a Guest, More than a Vision, More than a Job
- Highly commended- The Lightbox, The Lightbox Front of House Team
- Shortlisted- The Galleries of Justice Museum The Front of House Team, Turner Contemporary, Front of House; Turner Contemporary
Project on a limited budget
- Winner- Black Country Living Museum, WW1 Greengrocers
- Highly commended- Woodhorn Museum, Stand up for Woodhorn: Making a Case for Comedy in Museums
- Shortlisted- Southend Museums Service, The London Shipwreck Project, Barker Langham on behalf of the Drapers’ Company, Root & Branch – 650 Years of the Drapers’ Company, Victoria & Albert Museum, Architectural Drawing – Families Activity
Restoration or conservation
- Winner- Renfrewshire Council, The Grand Fountain Restoration, Paisley
- Highly commended- Coventry Transport Museum, 1916 Maudslay Subsidy Chassis
- Shortlisted- Bletchley Park Trust Ltd, Phase 1: Restoration of Bletchley Park – World War Two Heritage Site, Tate: The Conservation of Rothko’s ‘Black on Maroon’ (1958), The Prince’s Regeneration Trust Middleport Pottery, Historic Royal Palaces, Cumberland Art Gallery
Temporary or touring exhibition
- Winner- Historic Royal Palaces in conjunction with Paul Cummins Ceramics, ‘The Tower Remembers’ A First World War commemoration
- Highly commended- The Royal Air Force Museum, Pilots of the Caribbean
- Shortlisted- British Postal Museum & Archive, Last Post: Remembering the First World War, Jerwood Gallery, Jake and Dinos Chapman: In the Realm of the Unmentionable, Urban Salon, Rembrandt: The Late Works
The International award
- Winner- Tinker imagineers on behalf of the Stichting Domplein 2013 (Domplein Foundation), domunder: archaeological experience under the Domplein square
- Highly commended- Natura Artis Magistra, Micropia
- Shortlisted- Ministry of Forest and Water Management – Orucoglu Sistem, Gallipoli Simulation Museum, Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust, Historic Dockyard Museum, Government of Catalonia Culture Department-La Caixa Fundation, #Taull1123 Immersive experience in a World Heritage Site
The Winstan Bond Trophy For Trading + Enterprise
- Winner- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Botanic Lights: Night in the Garden
- Shortlisted- The Galleries of Justice Museum, Special Events Calendar, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Twam’s Rapid Enterprise Initiative, Ampersand on behalf of the Museum of London Docklands, Ampersand Turns Rum & Sugar into Gold, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, YSP Shop
Innovation
- Winner- The National Trust for Scotland in Partnership with Historic Scotland & Designers Bright White Ltd, The Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre
- Highly commended- Mather & Co on behalf of Manchester City Council, Archives
- Shortlisted- Culture24, www.vangoyourself.com, Centre Screen on behalf of English Heritage with Haley Sharpe Design and Studio Liddell, Stonehenge Exhibition and Visitor Centre ‘Standing in the Stones’, Sing London in partnership with Antenna Lab, Talking Statues, Science Museum, Information Age
Marketing Campaign
- Winner- Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Goes To Town
- Highly commended- IWM, First World War Galleries
- Shortlisted- The Natural History Museum, Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story, Woodhorn Museum, Retronaut, National Maritime Museum, Ships, Clocks and Stars, Luton Culture, Museums Makers
Permanent exhibition
- Winner- IWM London and Casson Mann, First World War Galleries
- Highly commended- The National Trust for Scotland in Partnership with Historic Scotland & Designers Bright White Ltd, The Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre
- Shortlisted- Leicester City Council, King Richard III Visitor Centre, The Foundling Museum, Introductory Gallery, Ditchling Museum of Art & Craft
Educational Initiative
- Joint winners- IWM, Transforming IWM London Learning Projects, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Shakespeare Week
- Shortlisted- Thackray Medical Museum in partnership with The Cupboard Young People’s Service, Health 4 All, Teen Time Travellers: a Teenage Health Project, Derby Museums, Re:Make the Museum, Bradford Museums & Galleries, BMDC The Art and Science of Noticing, North of England Civic Trust, Heritage Skills Initiative
Culture Pros Pick
- Winner- People’s History Museum
- Shortlisted- Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, King Richard III Visitor Centre, Leicester, Kelmscott Manor, Gloucestershire, Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey
