2008 MUSE Award Winners
Audio and Visual Tours
GOLD: Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Whitney Museum of American Art and Antenna Audio
SILVER: Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
Museum of Modern Art and Acoustiguide
BRONZE: Richard Prince Retrospective
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
HONORABLE MENTION: The Goat’s Dance: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide
J. Paul Getty Museum
Games
GOLD: Betwixt Folly and Fate
Colonial Willliamsburg Foundation and Eduweb
HONORABLE MENTION: Room of Wonders
French Regional American Museum Exchange
Interactive Kiosks
Gold: D-Day 096 Interactive
National World War II Museum and Unified Field
SILVER: Carmel Church Bone Bed
Virginia Museum of Natural History and Cortina Productions
BRONZE: The John Deere GPS Combine/Tractor Display
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago and Silver Oaks
HONORABLE MENTION: Kensett and the White Mountains
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
HONORABLE MENTION: Phillips Service Stations
Phillips Petroleum Company Museum with Haley Sharpe Ltd and Atacama
Interpretive Interactive Installations
GOLD: Limud Tables
Museum at Eldridge Street and Potion Design
SILVER: Lincoln’s Toughest Decisions
President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home
BRONZE: Getting Closer: Technology-based Interpretation at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit Institute of Arts and Acoustiguide
Multimedia Installations
GOLD: Infection Connection: IC Express
Liberty Science Center
SILVER: Sejarah Singapura
National Museum of Singapore
BRONZE: The Festival Experience
The Museum at Bethel Woods and Cortina Productions
HONORABLE MENTION: An Island Story
Bainbridge Island Historical Museum
Online Presence
GOLD: Powerhouse Museum Collection Database
Powerhouse Museum
SILVER: ArtShare on Facebook
The Brooklyn Museum
BRONZE: Tracing the Che School in Chinese Painting
National Palace Museum
Podcasts
GOLD: Ground Swell: Edward Hopper in 1939, Alexander Nemerov
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
and
Edward Hopper’s New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
SILVER: Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente
Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service
BRONZE: Video Podcasting at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
HONORABLE MENTION: Cool Things Podcasts
Kansas State Historical Society
Public Relations and Development
GOLD: The IMA Dashboard
Indianapolis Museum of Art
SILVER: The Grand Tour
The National Gallery, London and Antenna Audio
BRONZE: More Than Just A Commercial
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
HONORABLE MENTION: Space and Brain Television Spots
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Teaching and Outreach
GOLD: Great Chicago Stories
Chicago History Museum
SILVER: Never Lose Sight of Freedom, Educational Resource Kit
National Park Service
BRONZE: Excelling the Work of Heaven: Personal Adornment from China
University of Hawaii Art Gallery
HONORABLE MENTION: Emissaries of Peace
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Video
GOLD: Lives Lost, Lives Found
Jewish Museum of Maryland
SILVER: Ribbon of Sand
National Park Service
BRONZE: Louise Nevelson: A Conversation With Six Artists
The Jewish Museum and Mediacombo
HONORABLE MENTION: 1968: A Year That Shook America
The Museum at Bethel Woods with the History Channel
Jim Blackaby Ingenuity Award
ArtShare on Facebook
The Brooklyn Museum