2023 Shortlist

Huge congratulations to our amazing shortlistees! 
The winners will be announced at a glittering live ceremony on Wednesday 10 May.

SELECT Category | 2023

YEAR: 2023

Innovator of the Year

Shortlisted

  • YourTour Tourgether | Live-guided 360° video Virtual Visits
  • Meyvaert Kaap Skil, oxygen-free conservation showcases
  • Power Tap Systems Power Tap® removes the need for wires
  • Articheck Save time, money and carbon with Articheck, all while enhancing protection of objects.
  • Rubber Cheese Visitor Attraction Website Report
  • Info Point Wildfi Rewarding visitors for visiting.

2023

YEAR: 2023

Sector Support Award

Shortlisted

  • National Trust Heritage Open Days
  • Kids in Museums
  • Arts&Heritage
  • Arts Marketing Association Digital Heritage Hub
  • Sam Bowen SEND in Museums

2023

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YEAR: 2023

Café or Restaurant of the Year

Shortlisted

  • The Weston at Yorkshire Sculpture Park The Restaurant at The Weston
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery Flotsam & Jetsam at Dulwich Picture Gallery
  • Derby Museums The River Kitchen at the Museum of Making
  • Museum of North Craven Life The Folly Coffee House: A Year in the Life
  • National Trust for Scotland The Hill House Café

2023

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YEAR: 2023

Visitor Welcome Award

Shortlisted

  • Queer Britain Museum Queer Britain
  • The Scottish Crannog Centre Welcome to the Scottish Crannog Centre!
  • Wardlaw Museum 100% satisfaction, 100% empowered
  • Brunel Museum

2023

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Sustainable Project of the Year

Shortlisted

  • Royal West of England Academy RWA Sustainability
  • SS Great Britain Trust Voyage to Carbon Neutral
  • Food Museum Hedgerow
  • The Exchange Exchange Project
  • Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Once Upon A Planet
  • Leeds Museums and Galleries The 'Life on Earth' gallery at Leeds City Museum

2023

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YEAR: 2023

Best Use of Digital – International

Shortlisted

  • ReReeti Foundation: Revitializing Museums in India Un.Divided Identities
  • Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Studio Louter and Kiss the Frog Film Catcher
  • City of Kortrijk 1302 – Opstand, slag, keerpunt (Revolt, Battle, Turning point)
  • Agència Catalana del Patrimoni Cultural Giravolt. Spreading 3D technologies in the cultural heritage sector
  • Museum of Literature Ireland Digital at MoLI

2023

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YEAR: 2023

Best Use of Digital – UK

Shortlisted

  • Barnsley Museums Elsecar 1880: A Village Re-Imagined
  • Research Centre for Museums and Galleries & National Trust Everywhere and Nowhere: Exploring histories of disability across the National Trust
  • StoryFutures StoryTrails
  • University of Bristol Theatre Collection, Bristol Old Vic and Zubr Curio Making A Scene
  • Mary Rose Museum Trust and Picture This Productions Time Detectives: The Mystery of the Mary Rose

2023

YEAR: 2023

Team of the Year

Shortlisted

  • UK Parliament Business Support Team (Bookings)
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery The Operations Team
  • The British Museum Gallery Management Programme
  • National Museums Liverpool Housekeeping Team
  • The Coffin Works Jack of All Trades, Masters of Many: The Coffin Works Staff Team

2023

YEAR: 2023

Community Engagement Programme of the Year

Shortlisted

  • Museum of the Home What's your cup of tea?
  • Erewash Museum Christmas Toy Bank
  • Pallant House Gallery Community Programme 20th Birthday
  • People's History Museum Nothing About Us Without Us
  • The Cartoon Museum Cartoon Museum Autism Programme

2023

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YEAR: 2023

International Exhibition of the Year

Shortlisted

  • Swiss Alpine Museum Let’s Talk about Mountains. A filmic approach to Noth Korea
  • Toronto History Museums Dis/Mantle: Welcome to Mrs Pipkin’s Manor
  • National Council of Science Museums (India), Guangdong Science Center (China), Science Museum Group Injecting Hope
  • Vardemuseerne FLUGT - Refugee Museum of Denmark
  • Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum National Air and Space Museum West End Renovation

2023

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YEAR: 2023

Learning Programme of the Year

Shortlisted

  • The National Archives 20sStreets
  • Historic Royal Palaces Tower of London School Superbloom Project 2022
  • Old Royal Naval College Hospital School Outreach Programme
  • Learning without Borders - a collaboration between Brooklands Museum and Bourne Education Trust
  • Roman Baths Unearthing Aquae Sulis: Schools Programme

2023

YEAR: 2023

Partnership of the Year

Shortlisted

  • Hampshire Cultural Trust with Ubisoft, Sugar Creative and Sarner International 878 AD: Step into Anglo-Saxon Winchester
  • Delapré Abbey Preservation Trust Delapré Wellbeing
  • Colchester + Ipswich Museums Joy at the Jobcentre
  • National Justice Museum NJM on tour
  • Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Ways to Play - free days out for families

2023

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YEAR: 2023

Restoration or Conservation Project of the Year

Shortlisted

  • Hay Castle Trust and MICA Architects The Regeneration of Hay Castle
  • Cleveland Pools Trust Cleveland Pools Restoration
  • Dean and Chapter of Canterbury The Canterbury Journey
  • Culture Perth & Kinross Kahu kākāpō conservation project
  • Drakon Heritage and Conservation & Friends of Whitchurch Road Cemetery, Wem Conservation of Marram Grass Panels: a rare survivor

2023

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Shop of the Year

Shortlisted

  • Museum of the Home Museum of the Home Shop
  • Beamish, The Living Museum of the North Jubilee Confectioners
  • Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace Shop
  • Bletchley Park Bletchley Park Shop
  • Bath Preservation Trust No. 1 Royal Crescent

2023

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YEAR: 2023

Volunteers of the Year

Shortlisted

  • English Heritage Marble Hill Volunteers
  • Norfolk Heritage Centre Adam Baker - Queer Norfolk
  • Leeds Museums and Galleries Preservative Party, Leeds City Museum
  • Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery Hilary Waugh - One Woman Wonder
  • Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery David Jutson
  • Deal Museum Suzanne Green

2023

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Permanent Exhibition of the Year

Shortlisted

  • Bletchley Park The Intelligence Factory
  • The Science Museum Technicians: The David Sainsbury Gallery
  • Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, Kent County Council and Metaphor The Amelia Scott
  • National Trust The Children's Country House at Sudbury
  • Glasgow Life, Event & Beck Interiors The Burrell Collection

2023

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YEAR: 2023

Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year

Shortlisted

  • English Heritage The future belongs to what was as much as what is
  • Historic Royal Palaces and the University of Leicester Permissible Beauty
  • Migration Museum Taking Care of Business: Migrant Entrepreneurs and the Making of Britain
  • London Transport Museum Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce exhibition
  • Navrang Arts Rebuilding Lives: 50 Years of Ugandan Asians in Leicester

2023

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YEAR: 2023

Marketing + Communications Campaign of the Year

Shortlisted

  • Royal Air Force Museum Midlands Operation: Airwaves
  • Tate Liverpool Turner Prize 2022
  • Castle Howard Estate Ltd Christmas at Castle Howard
  • Imperial War Museums War Games: Real Conflicts | Virtual Worlds | Extreme Entertainment at IWM London
  • Historic England Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings Opening Campaign

2023