2007 MUSE Award Winners
Audio and Visual Tours
GOLD: Uncommon Commentaries: The Blanton Museum of Art Audio Program
The Blanton Museum of Art with Acoustiguide, Inc.
SILVER: iPod Multimedia Tour for “Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing”, Saint Louis Art Museum with Schwartz and Associates Creative
BRONZE: Red Studio Audio Program for Teens at the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art with Acoustiguide, Inc.
HONORABLE MENTION: Chicago Blues Audio Tour, Chicago Office of Tourism with Acoustiguide, Inc.
Extended Experience
GOLD: Luce Foundation Center for American Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum with Mediatrope Interactive Studio, Academy Studios, GVI, and Sonnett Media Group, Interactive Digital Experience
SILVER: mission: CLIMATE, Swedish Museum of Natural History with aMuze Interactive
Interactive Knowledge Card System
BRONZE: U-505 Extend the Experience, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry with The Iona Group, Interactive DVD
HONORABLE MENTION: Artist of the Week PodCasts at SJMA, San Jose Museum of Art
Games
GOLD: Maps: Tools for Adventure
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis with Bean Creative
www.mywonderfulworld.org/toolsforadventure/games/index.html
SILVER: Frog Paradise, National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan, with Bright Ideas Design Co., Ltd., CD-ROM
BRONZE: Meet Me at Midnight, Smithsonian American Art Museum with Bean Creative
midnight.si.edu
HONORABLE MENTION: Explore Butterflies, The Academy of Natural Sciences with Night Kitchen Interactive and Metcalfe Architecture and Design, www.ansp.org/museum/butterflies/index.php
Interactive Kiosks
GOLD: Be a Photographer, Newseum
SILVER: Pizza Run — A Slice of Programming, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science with WEATHERHEAD Experience Design Group
BRONZE: The Lagoda of New Bedford
New Bedford Whaling Museum with Second Story Interactive Studios
HONORABLE MENTION: Black Holes: Gravity’s Relentless Pull, Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach with Roeland van der Marel, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, and eduweb
Interpretive Interactive Installations
GOLD: Market Simulator Game
Museo Interactivo de Economia with Magian Design Studio
SILVER: Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body
National Library of Medicine with Second Story Interactive Studios
BRONZE: Denver Art Museum Hamilton Building Expansion
Denver Art Museum
HONORABLE MENTION: McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum Interactive Installations
McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum with Second Story Interactive Studios
Multimedia Installations
GOLD: Rise of the Machines — Artifact Theater
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science with WEATHERHEAD Experience Design Group
SILVER: The Well
New-York Historical Society with KPC Design’s Experience Media Group, American History Workshop, and Northern Light Productions
BRONZE: Blue Planet Theater at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center
Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center with Van Sickle & Rolleri, Cortina Productions, Mad Systems, and Exhibit Concepts
HONORABLE MENTION: Tribute
Tribute WTC Visitor Center with Monadnock Media, Inc.
Online Presence
GOLD: The Calligraphic World of Mi Fu’s Art
National Palace Museum, Taiwan
SILVER: Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
National Gallery of Art, Washington
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/venice/introduction/index.htm
BRONZE: Extremophiles in Kamchatka
Exploratorium
www.exploratorium.edu/kamchatka/
HONORABLE MENTION: Arago: People, Postage, and the Post
National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution with Second Story Interactive Studios
www.arago.si.edu
PR and Development
GOLD: Melbourne Museum Dinosaur Television Commercial Campaign
Museum Victoria with Act3Animation Pty Ltd
SILVER: Email Like an Egyptian
Frist Center for the Visual Arts with Paramore Redd Online Marketing
BRONZE: “Building the Future”
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh with New Perspective
campaign video
HONORABLE MENTION: E-mail Newsletter Project
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Teaching and Outreach
GOLD: Current Science & Technology Podcast
Museum of Science, Boston
SILVER: Opening Doors to Great Guest Experiences
Conner Prairie Museum with Creative Street Media Group
DVD/CD-ROM
BRONZE: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad in the Indiana and Kentucky Borderland Carnegie Center for Art & History with Solid Light, Inc.
Interactive DVD
HONORABLE MENTION: Remember the Ladies
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Video
GOLD: Little Boy and the Seven Grandfathers
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution with Cortina Productions
SILVER: Minneapolis in 19 Minutes Flat
Minnesota Historical Society’s Mill City Museum
BRONZE: The Greatest
Muhammad Ali Center with Cortina Productions
Jim Blackaby Ingenuity Award
Sonic Scenery: Music for Collections
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Audio Exhibition