2024 Shortlist
Huge congratulations to our amazing shortlistees!
The winners will be announced at a glittering live ceremony on Wednesday 15 May.
For further information about the ceremony and to attend the sector’s great event, go here.
SELECT Category | 2024
Innovator of the Year
Shortlisted
- TM Lighting TM MasterLight
- Fortecho Solutions Fortecho TGAI Tag
- PinPoint Visualisation Limited Voyager Art
- Look2Innovate Twister Hifi, The All in One Headset Audioguide Solution
- Give A Little Affordable, flexible and easy-to-use cashless fundraising
- National Collection of Aerial Photography, Historic Environment Scotland The DOS Project: Automated Digitisation Using Collaborative Robots
- Bev/Art Bev/Art Custodian: small, smooth and secure museum monitoring
2024
Sector Impact Award
Shortlisted
- Group for Education in Museums (GEM) Transforming Museums, Enriching Lives: GEM's Trailblazing Impact in Inclusive Learning for All
- National Museums Liverpool House of Memories
- The Heritage Alliance The Heritage Alliance: Championing the breadth of the sector and growing confidence, connections and skills across the Heritage Workforce
- Leeds Museums and Galleries Leeds Museums and Galleries Learning and Access Team
- Sam Bowen Sam Bowen: SEND in Museums - inclusion for everyone
- Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester Trans-Inclusive Culture
2024
Café or Restaurant of the Year
Shortlisted
- American Museum & Gardens American Garden Deli
- The Bowes Museum Café Bowes
- Thackray Museum of Medicine Thackray Cafe: Explore Beyond Medicine
2024
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Visitor Welcome Award
Shortlisted
- Gloucester Cathedral A world class welcome awaits you at Gloucester Cathedral!
- Beamish, The Living Museum of the North
- St Mary’s Guildhall A Warm Welcome at St Mary's Guildhall
- National Museums Liverpool Visitor Experience Team
- The Real Mary King's Close
2024
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Sustainable Project of the Year
Shortlisted
- Art Fund (on behalf of 530 participating museums) The Wild Escape
- Manchester Museum and Museum Development North West (MDNW) Roots and Branches
- Cairngorms National Park Authority, Balmoral Estate, Lateral North Cairngorms Capercaiilie Project - Capercaillie lek experience
- The Scottish Crannog Centre 1000 Fingerprints 1000 Voices
- Yorkshire and North East Film Archives Nature Matters
- The Story Museum Brilli-ANT: How someone small changed a big story
2024
Best Use of Digital – International
Shortlisted
- Histovery Notre-Dame de Paris, the Augmented Exhibition
- Museum Odense and Event Carl Nielsen Museum
- Trinity College Dublin The Book of Kells Experience
- Museum of Abandonment, Romania UNBOXING Live Museum
- Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) Stories from the skies: Te Kōtiu immersive projection experience
2024
Best Use of Digital – UK
Shortlisted
- The Mary Rose Trust Dive 4D: The Mary Rose Museum
- University of Bristol Cultural Collections (with Library Research Support) The Uncertain Space: a virtual museum
- English Heritage, Brunel University, London and University of Essex Sancho's Journey - Decolonising heritage sites using Mixed Reality performances
- Victoria and Albert Museum Victoria and Albert Museum - mused
- National Portrait Gallery Schools hub
2024
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In partnership with
Team of the Year
Shortlisted
- Foundling Museum The Operations Team
- Tower Bridge Technical Team
- The Powell-Cotton Museum Skulls on the move!
- No.1 Royal Crescent Front of House Team
- Whitchurch Silk Mill Weaving Team
2024
Community Engagement Programme of the Year
Shortlisted
- National Galleries of Scotland and Rowan Alba Enriching Lives and Supporting Recovery
- History of Science Museum & Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford University) Multakaoxford
- Imperial War Museum Perspectives: Remembrance
- Warwick Arts Centre Playing Out in Canley
- Wilberforce House Museum, Hull Museums Changing Perspectives
2024
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In partnership with
International Exhibition of the Year
Shortlisted
- The Franklin Institute Wondrous Space
- Swiss Alpine Museum Home. Tracing the Story of Mitholz
- Royal Court Affairs and Event Oman Across the Ages
- The Danish Welfare Museum Placed in Care (Anbragt)
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Mission Masterpiece at the Rijksmuseum - Are you discovering a new masterpiece?
2024
In partnership with
Learning Programme of the Year
Shortlisted
- National Museums NI Museum on the Move
- Sainsbury Centre Art And...
- Real World Science partners and the Natural History Museum Explore: Urban Nature, UK-wide Learning Programme
- Horniman Museum and Gardens Secondary School Programme
- Brunel Museum Mud, Flood and Fire
2024
Partnership of the Year
Shortlisted
- Manchester Museum Pinc College and Manchester Museum
- Bletchley Park Trust AI Safety Summit
- Hampshire Cultural Trust in partnership with Hampshire CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) Inspire, create and exchange: fostering positive mental health in young people through heritage
- Ushaw Historic House, Chapels & Gardens Ushaw Historic House & St Leonard's Catholic School
- Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Portsmouth Historic Dockyard: a partnership between the Mary Rose Trust and the National Museum of the Royal Navy
- Hackney Council & Pure Expression 1984 at Hackney Town Hall
2024
In partnership with
Restoration or Conservation Project of the Year
Shortlisted
- The Bowes Museum The Silver Swan; Bring Back the Magic
- University of St Andrews, Libraries and Museums Toxic Books: Detecting arsenic in 19th century book covers
- UK Parliament Elizabeth Tower; Restoring an Icon
- The Churches Conservation Trust Bees, Bodies, Bodley - The (Re)Birth of Sudbury Arts Centre
- Historic England#Rooswijk1740 - Conservation of artefacts from the protected wreck of the Rooswijk
- Hardwick Hall, National Trust A Stitch in Time: Conserving the Gideon Tapestries
2024
Shop of the Year
Shortlisted
- The Postal Museum The Postal Museum Shop
- Young V&A Young V&A Shop
- Ashmolean Museum Ashmolean Museum Shop
- English Heritage Trust Stonehenge Shop
- Shakespeare's Globe The Globe Shop
2024
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Volunteers of the Year
Shortlisted
- Royal Air Force Museum Roy Martin, Royal Air Force Museum Engineering Volunteer
- Manchester Museum Team Joe lead the way
- The Coffin Works Museum Vickie Jones: Volunteer, Friend and Coffin Works' Champion
- St Barbe Museum + Art Gallery Prue Baker
- Cadw Welsh Government Cadw North Wales Project Volunteers - Pod's Pilgrimage
- Suffolk Archives/Suffolk County Council Kamal Faizi - Suffolk Archives and Volunteering Matters
2024
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Permanent Exhibition of the Year
Shortlisted
- Manchester Museum South Asia Gallery: a British Museum partnership
- Historic Royal Palaces The Crown Jewels Exhibition
- Titanic Belfast The Titanic Experience Reimagined
- Kilmartin Museum Company Ltd Kilmartin Museum's Permanent Exhibition
- The Royal College of Surgeons of England The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England
2024
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Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year – budget over £80k
Shortlisted
- Fitzwilliam Museum Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
- Migration Museum Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS
- The Natural History Museum Titanosaur: Life as the Biggest Dinosaur
- Irish in Britain Look Back to Look Forward: 50 Years of the Irish in Britain
- MK Gallery Beyond The Page South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now
2024
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Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year – budget under £80k
Shortlisted
- Northampton Museums and Art Gallery Punk: Rage & Revolution
- Leeds Museums and Galleries and the Leeds Hip Hop Historian Society A Hip Hop Journey: 50 Years of Kulture
- Thackray Museum of Medicine Private Parts
- Garden Museum Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical
- Historic Royal Palaces The Indian Army at the Palace
2024
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In partnership with
Marketing + Communications Campaign of the Year
Shortlisted
- The British Museum The Citi exhibition China's hidden century
- Wellcome Collection The Cult of Beauty
- The Tank Museum YouTube & The Creator Economy
- V&A Dundee Tartan - a campaign for the 21st century
- National Portrait Gallery The new National Portrait Gallery - Reopening Communications Campaign
- Black Country Living Museum 75 babies - bringing the Black Country's past and present together
2024