Award Winners 2011

Congratulations to all the winners of the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence 2011!

To see more information on the winning projects please click on the category menu items on the left.


Marketing Campaign 
Brunel's ss Great Britain: 40th Homecoming Anniversary/Lets Celebrate - WINNER
People's History Museum: Re-branding of the People's History Museum - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shortlisted entries:
Museum of London: Galleries of Modern London
Historic Royal Palaces: Enchanted Palace, Kensington Palace
The British Library: Evolving English: One language, many voices
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums: The Late Shows
 

 

Permanent Exhibition 
National Trust for Scotland and Event Communications: The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum - WINNER
Museum of London: Galleries of Modern London - HIGHLY COMMENDED
The Bowes Museum: Fashion & Textile Gallery - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shortlisted entries:
People's History Museum: The New Main Galleries 
Imperial War Museum London: The Lord Ashcroft Gallery: Extraordinary Heroes
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge: The Polar Museum: Promoting Britain's Polar Heritage
 

 

Temporary or Touring Exhibition 
Beck Interiors Ltd: 1001 Inventions - WINNER
The British Library: Evolving English: One language, many voices - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Imperial War Museum North: Shaped by War, Photographs by Don McCullin - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shortlisted entries:
Drinkall Dean and Tim Hatley: Diaghilev & The Golden Age of The Ballets: Russes 1902 - 1929
National Museums Liverpool: Plantastic!
 

 

Educational Initiative 
LAARC: Visitor Inclusion Project - WINNER
Museums Galleries Scotland: Remembering Scotland At War - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Dulwich Picture Gallery: Good Times: Art for Older People - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shortlisted entries:
The British Museum: Young Explorers
Barleylands Farm Museum: Barleylands Education Programme
Tate Gallery: The Tate Movie Project

 

Project on a Limited Budget 
Discover Children's Story Centre: Facing Forward - WINNER
Coventry Transport Museum: Ghost Town? - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shortlisted entries:
Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust: The Museum of Wigan Life
National Maritime Museum Cornwall: 150 years of the Docks
South London Gallery: The Expansion of the South London Gallery

 

Innovations
Historic Royal Palaces: Henry VIII's Tapestries Revealed - WINNER
Wallace Collection: Bringing Music back into the Galleries - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Acoustiguide: Monet 1840-1926 Smartour App - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shortlisted entries:
GR/DD: The Carbon Cycle' For the Science Museum
Science Museum: Antenna Science News Now
Natural History Museum: Who do you think you really are?
 

 

Winstan Bond Trophy for the Entrepreneurial Attraction/Museum of the Year, supported by AIM
Glasgow School of Art Enterprises Ltd: The Glasgow School of Art - WINNER

Shortlisted entries:
Historic Royal Palaces: The Enchanted Palace, Kensington Palace
Coventry Transport Museum: Driving Conferencing Forward
Chelmsford Borough Council: Chelmsford Museum & The Essex Regiment Museum
 

 

Classic Award 
National Museums Liverpool: Merseyside Maritime Museum - WINNER
Shropshire Museum Service: Acton Scott Historic Working Farm - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shortlisted entries:
Lakeland Arts Trust: Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House
Mostyn: Mostyn Gallery Re-development
Kilmartin House Trust: Kilmartin House Museum
Science Museum: Wellcome Wing Redevelopment

 

International Award
Martello Media Ltd: Glasnevin Museum, Dublin - WINNER
Studio Adrien Gardère: The Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, Egypt - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shortlisted entries:
BRC Imagination Arts: Exploration Space: Explorers Wanted
Beck Interiors Ltd: National Charter Monument Bahrain

 

Restoration or Conservation 
Camlin Lonsdale Landscape Architects: Bury Mount and the Watermeadows - WINNER
Westminster Abbey: Conservation of Westminster Cosmati Pavement - HIGHLY COMMENDED

Shortlisted entries:
Farnham Castle: Keep Restoration
Leighton House Museum & Coniston Ltd: Closer to Home - Leighton House
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: Valence House Museum
 

 

M&H Online Industry Nomination Award 
MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester) - WINNER

Shortlisted entries:

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Museum of the Order of St John