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

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