{"id":19126,"date":"2018-05-30T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=19126"},"modified":"2018-05-30T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T15:46:06","slug":"2018-museums-heritage-awards-for-excellence-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19126","title":{"rendered":"2018 Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence announced\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MuseumsHeritageAwards2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19127\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MuseumsHeritageAwards2018.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>At a packed-out glittering awards ceremony the winners of the 2018 Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence were announced.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Museum + Heritage Awards writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 As well as the 13 categories the judges presented a Special Recognition Award to The Wolfson Foundation, which was accepted by Chief Executive, Paul Ramsbottom. Huge congratulations to all of our winners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The International Award Winner was Holland Open Air Museum and Kossmann.dejong, The Canon of Dutch History<\/li>\n<li>Highly Commended: The Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin State Museums,The Syria Initiative &#8211; Museum as Mediator of Shared Heritage<\/li>\n<li>Innovation Winner: Museum of London Archaeological Archive, #ArchiveLottery<\/li>\n<li>Highly Commended: Science Museum Group, Space Descent VR with Tim Peake<\/li>\n<li>Best Shop over \u00a3500k Winner was Tower Bridge, Tower Bridge &#8216;Gift Shop Redesign&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Fundraising Initiative of the Year Winner was Haslemere Educational Museum, Museum in a Million<\/li>\n<li>Highly Commended was Gairloch + District Heritage Co Ltd, Our Land, Our People, Our Story<\/li>\n<li>Best Shop under \u00a3500k Winner was Royal Albert Memorial Museum &amp; Art Gallery, Exeter, The Shop at RAMM<\/li>\n<li>Highly Commended was Bront\u00eb Parsonage Museum, Bront\u00eb Parsonage Museum Shop<\/li>\n<li>Educational Initiative Winner was UCL Museums and Collections, Museums on Prescription<\/li>\n<li>Highly Commended was Leeds Museums and Galleries, Exceed Expectations \u2026 with objects and artworks<\/li>\n<li>Permanent Exhibition Winner was Brooklands Museum, The Brooklands Aircraft Factory &amp; Flight Shed<\/li>\n<li>Highly Commended was Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford Museums &amp; Galleries; The David Hockney Gallery; The Natural History Museum, Hintze Hall<\/li>\n<li>Marketing Campaign Winner was The Postal Museum, Launching The Postal Museum and Mail Rail<\/li>\n<li>Highly Commended was Victoria Art Gallery, Here Be Dragons marketing campaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awards.museumsandheritage.com\/awards-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a packed-out glittering awards ceremony the winners of the 2018 Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence were announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19128,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions\/19128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}