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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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