Awards & Fellowships
The National Association for Museum Exhibition Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition recognizes outstanding achievement in exhibition from all types of museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and non-commercial institutions offering exhibitions to the public. Following is a list of past winners.
NAME also provides fellowships for young people entering the field to attend workshops and conferences. Click here for a list of past Fellowship recipients.
Twenty-Second Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition 2010
Sponsored by CARE, CurCom, EdCom, and NAME
Special Achievement in Cooperative Learning
Skyline
Chicago Children’s Museum
Special Achievement in Community Engagement
Changing Places: From Black and White to Technicolor
Levine Museum of the New South
Overall Excellence Award
Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia
Museum of International Folk Art
Overall Excellence Award
Tree Adventure
Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
Twenty-First Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition 2009
Excellence in Exhibition Design Award
Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World
The Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Excellence in Exhibition Design Award
Madagascar
Bronx Zoo and the Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx, New York
Honorable Mention
Chic Chicago
Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
Honorable Mention
France New France: Birth of a French People in North America
Pointe-a-Calliere, Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History, Montreal, Canada
Twentieth Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition 2008
RACE: Are we so different?
The Science Center of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN in partnership with the American Anthropological Association
Ironclad Revolution
The Mariner's Museum, Newport News, VA
Dare to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust
Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York, NY
Noah's Ark
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Past Award Winners
Plants Are Up to Something
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
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
The Dark Zone
Utah Museum of Natural History
JANE:The Diary of a Dinosaur
Burpee Museum of Natural History
KISS: When a kiss isn't just a kiss
The Contemporary Art Galleries: University of Connecticut
Montreal Love Stories: The Cultural Connection
Pointe-a-Calliere, Montreal Museum of Archeology and History
Teen Chicago
Chicago Historical Society
COURAGE: The Carolina Story That Changed America
Levine Museum
Ours to Fight for: American Jews in the Second World War
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Hall of Ocean Life
The American Museum of Natural History
Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
Milwaukee Art Museum
Playas…Gems of the Plains
Northwest Texas Museum Association
Heroes of the Sky: Adventures in Early Flight, 1903-1939
The Henry Ford
Alice's Wonderland: A Most Curious Adventure
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
Invention at Play
National Museum of American History
Jellies: Living Art
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Joseph McCarthy: A Modern Tragedy
Outagamie County Historical Society
On Stage and Behind the Scenes
Indianapolis Children's Museum
Amazon Rising: Seasons of the River
Shedd Aquarium
Drumbeats: A Percussion Experience
Indianapolis Children's Museum
Revealing Bodies
Exploratorium
Congo Gorilla Forest
Bronx Zoo
Dynamic Earth
Royal Ontario Museum
Animal Eyes
Museum of Opthamology History Library, San Francisco
Egyptian Mummies
Denver Museum of Natural History
Memory
The Exploratorium
