Past Recipients Excellence in Exhibition Awards

2017 Recipients

Overall Award Winner

Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
Philadelphia, PA

Special Achievement (alphabetical order by exhibit title)

Altered State: Marijuana in California
Oakland Museum of California
Oakland, CA
Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road
The Getty Research Institute and The Getty Conservation Institute
Los Angeles, CA
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe
Asian Art Museum
San Francisco, CA
William Conner House
Conner Prairie
Fishers, IN
The Wonder Sound
The New Children’s Museum
San Diego, CA

Honorable Mention (alphabetical order by exhibit title)

Cultural Expressions
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Washington, DC
Extraordinary Ideas from Ordinary People
San Diego Natural History Museum
California
Girls Writing the World: A Library ReImagined
Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace/ Girl Scouts of the USA
Savannah, GA
Tamanwit: Unwritten Laws and Beliefs, Wanapum of Priest Rapids
Wanapum Heritage Center
Mattawa, WA

Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
National Museum of the American Indian
Washington, DC
Coast to Cactus in Southern California
San Diego Natural History Museum
California
National Geographic Sacred Journeys
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Indiana
Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio
Denver Art Museum
Colorado
The Science Behind Pixar
Museum of Science
Boston, MA
Living Seashore
National Aquarium
Baltimore, MD
Object Project
National Museum of American History
Washington, DC
Pacific Worlds
Oakland Museum of California
California

Honorable Mention

Broken? Fix It!
Long Island Children’s Museum
Innovation Galleries: Early Peoples
North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum

State of the Art
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Your Brain
Franklin Institute
“Interstitial Area Installations”
National September 11 Memorial Museum
Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in British Columbia
Royal British Columbia Museum

Honorable Mention

Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial
The Office of the City Clerk Archives and Records Management Division (Boston City Archives)
The Big Graph
Eastern State Penitentiary
Freeport [No. 007]: Celest Boursier-Mougenot
Peabody Essex Museum

Imaginative Design and Interpretation
Design for the Modern Child
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Innovative Integration of Design and Content
First Peoples
Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Exemplary Model of Creating Experiences for Social Engagement
Jungle Trails
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Ohio
Outstanding Connections Between Design, Content and Community Context
Nature Lab
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Calif.

Aesthetics and Materials
Light: Installations by Bruce Munro
Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA
Messaging and Engagement
Health Happens Here
The California Museum, Sacramento
Community Engagement
Out in Chicago
Chicago History Museum
Alignment of Site and Mission: Suite of Exhibitions
Sky, Life, Land, First Peoples, Great Salt Lake, and Past Worlds
Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City

Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to the Present
Detroit Institute of Arts

Eloquent Presentation of Topic
Across the Wire: Voices from Heart Mountain
Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center, Powell, WY
Innovative Reframing of Collections
Dinosaur Hall
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
Exemplary Inclusion of Community Voices
Coming to California
Oakland Museum of California

Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
The New York Public Library, New York City