SELECT Category | 2021
2021

Sponsored by

Sustainable Project of the Year
The Winner
Jubilee Pool Penzance Ltd, Jubilee Pool Penzance - first geothermal heated pool in the UK
Highly Commended
- Derby Museums Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill
Shortlisted
- Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museums Wales GRAFT: a soil based syllabus
- Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries Natural Encounters Exhibition Leeds Art Gallery
- Froglife London T.O.A.D (Tails of Amphibian Discovery)
2021

Best Use of Digital – International
The Winner
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Stories
Highly Commended
- Untitled Workers Club on behalf of Visit Flanders The Stay At Home Museum
Shortlisted
- History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff 300 Photos in 30 Days: A Candid Look at Covid-19
- National Museums Liverpool with National Heritage Board, British Council Singapore and Agency for Integrated Care House of Memories Singapore
- National Museum of Korea SNMK (Smart National Museum of Korea) Project
2021

Best Use of Digital – UK
The Winner
National Portrait Gallery Hold Still: A Portrait of our Nation in 2020
Highly Commended
- Barnsley Museums Going Digital: Barnsley Museums in COVID and Smartify CIC with Playdead and National Galleries of Scotland Ray Harryhausen at The National Galleries of Scotland
Shortlisted
- London Transport Museum Hidden London Hangouts and Virtual Tours
- non zero one and the National Trust in partnership with Heritage Open Days DAWNS
- The British Museum Expanding Samsung Digital Discovery Centre Virtual Visits
2021

Fundraisers of the Year
The Winner
Charleston Save and Reopen Charleston
Highly Commended
- The Cartoon Museum COVID-19 survival fundraiser
Shortlisted
- The BGI Save the National Videogame Museum Crowdfunding Campaign
- Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway 'Tracks' campaign
- The Tank Museum The Tank Museum Patreon
- RAF Museum Adopt an Artefact
2021

Community Impact Award
The Winner
Colchester + Ipswich Museums Museum From Home activity packs
Highly Commended
- The Scottish Crannog Centre Dig the New Breed!! Apprentices and the local community
Shortlisted
- Royal Mint Museum Reminiscence Box Project
- English Heritage Reverberate
- Heritage Doncaster Finding History, Health and Happiness in lockdown
2021

Category Sponsor

International Exhibition of the Year
The Winner
MAS Antwerpen 100 x Congo. A century of Congolese art in Antwerp
Highly Commended
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art About Time: Fashion and Duration
Shortlisted
- Museum Southeast Denmark Holmegaard Værk
- Natural History Museum of Denmark King of Dinosaurs
- Centre Screen & Creo Industrial Arts on behalf of the US Olympic & Paralympic Museum United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum
- Tinker imagineers & Airborne Museum Hartenstein Airborne Experience
2021

Learning Outreach Award
The Winner
Leeds Museums and Galleries Closing the Covid gap: LMG Primary School Membership, curriculum planning and Recovery Curriculum
Highly Commended
- Council for British Archaeology, University of Lincoln Dig School: Enquiry-based learning in archaeology
Shortlisted
- Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children's Books Escape, Joy and Recovery: reinvention of a child-centred learning programme in a pandemic
- Waddesdon Manor When You Wish upon a Star
- Bumblebee Conservation Trust Bumblebee Education Experience (B.E.E.)
2021

Partnership of the Year
The Winner
Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (University of Leicester) on behalf of QHCN Queer Heritage and Collections Network
Highly Commended
- National Museum of the Royal Navy, National Army Museum, RAF Museum, Commonwealth War Graves Commission Joint Operations - A Tri-Service Museum Partnership
Shortlisted
- Smartify CIC on behalf of The National Gallery and Royal Holloway University of London Exit through the digital gift shop: rapid research and development of a new museum marketplace
- Chichester Cathedral, Jacquiline Creswell, Ash Mills & 10 Partners The Chichester Nativity
- Ashmolean Museum with The Oxford Times 'Artists in Residence' Art Competition
2021

The Pandemic Pivot Award (fewer than 20 paid FTE employees)
The Winner
Gloucester History Trust Gloucester Looking Up
Highly Commended
- Thelma Hulbert Gallery The Creative Cabin - art and nature on tour
Shortlisted
- Nothe Fort Demonstrating how heritage sites have an important role to play during the pandemic
- Chawton House Transforming Chawton House: the Covid year
- South West Museum Development Pest Partners project
2021


Restoration or Conservation Project of the Year
Joint Winners
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings SPAB Old House Project
and
National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth City Council, D Day Story Landing craft tank LCT 7074 -Rescuing a D-Day Hero
Shortlisted
- St Alfege Church Heart of Greenwich Place and People Project
- Hampshire Cultural Trust Mr Simpson's Teddy Bears - a bit of joy in dark times
- Derby Museums on behalf of the project delivery Alliance Partners Restoring Derby Silk Mill to create the UK’s first Museum of Making
- Cliveden Conservation and Dorset Museum Reinstallation of Fordington Roman mosaic, Dorset Museum
2021

Shop of the Year
The Winner
The Tank Museum The Tank Museum Online Shop
Highly Commended
- London Transport Museum London Transport Museum's Online Shop
Shortlisted
- The Box, Plymouth City Council The Box Shop
- Vagina Museum The Vagina Museum shop
- National Museums Liverpool National Museums Liverpool Online Shop
2021

In partnership with

Volunteers of the Year
The Winner
Harry and Julian Young The Lion Salt Works Museum
Highly Commended
- Capturing Lives in Scotland's Communities - Student Mentors University of Edinburgh Museums
Shortlisted
- The Powderham Volunteers Powderham Castle
- Terry Woolliscroft's Bottle Oven Art Club Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent City Council
- Bawdsey Radar online retail team Bawdsey Radar Trust
2021

COVID Special Recognition Award
The Winner
Bernard Donoghue, ALVA
Shortlisted
- Pippa Pickles, Colchester + Ipswich Museums
- David Green, Florence Nightingale Museum
- Victoria Ryves, Heritage Doncaster, Doncaster Council
- Rachel Mackay's Recovery Room
- Ngaire Bushell, IWM
2021

COVID Supplier of the Year
The Winner
Tricolor Associates: recovery support for many
Shortlisted
- Formed UK: COVID-safe re-opening of museums
- The Radical Tea Towel Company: showing Solidarity
- Decision House: visitor recovery insight for ALVA
- Julius Rutherfoord & Co: COVID-safe re-opening of museums
2021

Best Use of Social Media
The Winner
Black Country Living Museum BCLM on TikTok
Highly Commended
- York Museums Trust #CuratorBattle
Shortlisted
- The Tank Museum TANKFEST Online
- The Coffin Works Museum Closed but connected: Taking Risks to Open Up Our Collection
- National Museums Liverpool International Slavery Museum's Social Media
2021

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Exhibition of the Year – UK
The Winner
Garden Museum Derek Jarman: My Garden’s Boundaries are the Horizon
Highly Commended
- The Box, Plymouth City Council Permanent Galleries
Shortlisted
- Horniman Museum and Gardens From Birth til Death: Scrolled Life Stories
- Salisbury Cathedral Celebrating 800 years of 'Spirit and Endeavour'
- Nerve Centre and National Museums NI Culture Lab
2021

The Pandemic Pivot Award (more than 20 paid FTE employees)
The Winner
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North
Highly Commended
- Birmingham Museums Trust Sarehole Mill - Community Shop and Bakehouse
- National Trust for Scotland Burn's Big Night In
Shortlisted
- Lichfield Cathedral A beacon of hope during a pandemic
- Museum of London Project Doors Stay Open
- Imperial War Museum Victory 75
2021