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Competitions
- Twentieth Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition
- The Twentieth Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition recognizes outstanding achievement in the exhibition format from all types of museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and any other types of non-commercial institutions offering exhibitions to the public. The competition is the joint project of the following AAM Standing Professional Committees (SPCs): Curators Committee (CURCOM), the National Association for Museum Exhibition (NAME), the Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE) and the Education Committee (EdCom).
Download an application. Deadline: January 4, 2008.
The Nineteenth Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition drew 23 highly competitive entries from a variety of institutions, including natural history and science museums, art and history museums, children’s museums and institutions with living collections. The budgets of the exhibitions ranged from $3,200 to $58 million (the latter a long-term exhibit with acres of outdoor facilities).
Competition judges declared one institution the clear winner and awarded honorable mentions to four others. Each exhibition cited for superior quality conveyed engaging messages, used appropriate media to help visitors acquire skills or engage in rich sensory experiences and demonstrated a commitment to audience research to achieve its goals. We urge all museums to enter next year’s competition so that energy gained from wonderful entries can continue to propel the competition forward.
View pictures from every entry for the 2007 competition (23 in all):
http://www.flickr.com/groups/eec07
2007 Award Winner:
Plants Are Up to Something
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
2007 Honorable Mention recipients:
Sensing Chicago
Chicago History Museum
The Wonder Cabinet
Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose
Evolving Planet
Field Museum
Asia Trail
Smithsonian National Zoological Park
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