SELECT Category | 2022
2021

Café or Restaurant of the Year
The Winner
Manchester Jewish Museum Manchester Jewish Museum Café
Highly Commended
- Kiplin Hall and Gardens Growing at Kiplin
Shortlisted
- English Heritage Stonehenge Café
- Whitchurch Silk Mill Whitchurch Silk Mill Riverside Café
- The Black Watch Castle and Museum Bistro @ The Castle
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Visitor Welcome Award
The Winner
History of Science Museum, University of Oxford History of Science Museum Front of House Team
Highly Commended
- Derby Museums Museum of Making
- Beamish, The Living Museum of the North Putting the Visitor First at Beamish, The Living Museum of the North
Shortlisted
- London Transport Museum Welcoming visitors to LTM
- Bristol Culture and Creative Industries Bristol Culture and Creative Industries Front of House Team
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Sustainable Project of the Year
The Winner
Discovering42 CIC Reimagining Reality
Highly Commended
- Wright & Wright Architects on behalf of Museum of the Home Museum of the Home
Shortlisted
- Wakefield Museums & Castles A World of Good
- Dundee Museum of Transport How can museums support the move to climate-friendly technology and lifestyles? UN COP-26, Glasgow Science Centre
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Best Use of Digital – International
The Winner
DMW Creative, on behalf of The Irish National Stud Company, Ireland Irish Racehorse Experience
Highly Commended
- UNIT9 and Verizon on behalf of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA The Met Unframed
Shortlisted
- Øhavsmuseet, Denmark Time machine
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain
- Het Kabouterhuis, Netherlands Living Story, BitSpecial and Groeneveld Castle
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Best Use of Digital – UK
The Winner
Commonwealth War Graves Commission War Graves Week
Highly Commended
- London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE Tour Roman Londinium Live! Virtual Education Sessions
Shortlisted
- Bradford Cathedral Bradford Cathedral: A Hidden Gem Revealed
- The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings SPAB Repair Course
- Brunel Museum Tunnelling through Time
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Fundraisers of the Year
The Winner
Fashion Museum Bath Buy a Bag Campaign
Highly Commended
- Foundling Museum Foundling Portraits Campaign
Shortlisted
- Derby Museums Derby Ram Trail
- Horniman Museum and Gardens London Road Tree Planting Appeal
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Community Engagement Programme of the Year
The Winner
York Archaeological Trust Archaeology on Prescription
Highly Commended
- Leeds Museums and Galleries Wellbeing, Belonging and Creativity. Community Relationships at Leeds Museums and Galleries
Shortlisted
- Heritage Doncaster History, Health and Happiness
- English Heritage Shout Out Loud, English Heritage’s National Youth Engagement Programme
- Hastings Museum & Art Gallery What's in the box?
- Royal Shakespeare Company THREADS
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International Exhibition of the Year
The Winner
Casa Batlló Casa Batlló Immersive Experience
Highly Commended
- AlfaVision on behalf of Saint Bavo’s Cathedral Ghent The Ghent Altarpiece Visitor Centre: Saint Bavo’s Cathedral Ghent
Shortlisted
- Tinker imagineers on behalf of National Monument Kamp Amersfoort, Netherlands National Monument Kamp Amersfoort
- Museum Hof van Busleyden, Belgium Renaissance Children
- Event on behalf of H. C. Andersen House, Denmark H. C. Andersen House
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Learning Programme of the Year
The Winner
Foundling Museum Tracing Our Tales
Highly Commended
- Leeds Museums and Galleries Breaking the mould: co-creating arts savvy initial teacher training
- National Museums Liverpool Lockdown learning: Virtual classrooms
Shortlisted
- The Novium Museum Virtual Field Trips
- Heritage and Culture Warwickshire and Rebecca Bell, Integrate Education Narrative Immersion - Creating the Wow moment
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Partnership of the Year
The Winner
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Meat the Future: A partnership to feed minds and bodies
Highly Commended
- Bristol Culture & Creative Industries with We Are Bristol History Commission The Colston Statue: What Next
Shortlisted
- Roundhouse Birmingham x Don't Settle Birmingham by Night, Herstory of Birmingham & My Voice, My Path
- Natural History Museum, Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment and the BBC Studios Natural History Unit. Brought together by On Purpose Group Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature
- Science Museum Group and Cancer Research UK Cancer Revolution: Science, innovation and hope
- Jewish Museum London Life with Loss: Helping Children to Understand Grief
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Restoration or Conservation Project of the Year
The Winner
The Churches Conservation Trust in partnership with Mosedale Gillatt Architects and Historic Properties Restoration Ltd Turning a dream into a reality - restoring 1719, Sunderland
Highly Commended
- Sally Strachey Historic Conservation Ltd on behalf of National Trust The Wellington Monument, Somerset
Shortlisted
- Wright & Wright Architects Museum of the Home
- Aerospace Bristol Aerospace Bristol Conservation Workshop
- The Wallace Collection Conserving Fragonard's 'The Swing'
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Shop of the Year
The Winner
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North 1900s Town Market Stalls at Beamish, The Living Museum of the North
Highly Commended
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park Yorkshire Sculpture Park Shops
Shortlisted
- Tate Tate Edit x Chila Kumari Singh Burman
- The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret The Old Op Apothecary Shop
- English Heritage Eltham Palace
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Volunteers of the Year
The Winner
Cleveland Pools Volunteer Team Cleveland Pools Trust
Highly Commended
- Jennifer Morgan Museum of Bath Stone
- Plas Mawr Volunteer Team Cadw, Welsh Government - Plas Mawr Tudor House
Shortlisted
- Anand Mangal: Our Culture, Our Journey Leicestershire County Council Participation Team and Museums Service
- Harry Pearson North York Moors National Park
- Neolithic Longhouse at La Hougue Bie volunteers Jersey Heritage
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Permanent Exhibition of the Year
The Winner
Imperial War Museums Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries
Highly Commended
- David Livingstone Trust David Livingstone Birthplace
Shortlisted
- The Wordsworth Trust Wordsworth Grasmere
- The Story Museum Building a World of Stories
- Derby Museums and the Alliance Board for the Museum of Making Museum of Making - The Assemblage
- Manchester Jewish Museum Manchester Jewish Museum
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Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year (budget under £80,000)
The Winner
Museum of Homelessness Secret Museum
Highly Commended
- SS Great Britain Trust Iron Island
Shortlisted
- Horniman Museum and Gardens Dance Can't Nice: Exploring London’s Black music spaces
- English Heritage Trust Liberty & Lottery: Exploring the Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade at Brodsworth Hall and Gardens
- Historic Royal Palaces George III: The Mind Behind The Myth
- Old Royal Naval College Gaia in the Painted Hall
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Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year (budget greater than £80,000)
The Winner
Colchester + Ipswich Museums Power of Stories
Highly Commended
- V&A Alice Curiouser & Curiouser
Shortlisted
- Natural History Museum Our Broken Planet: How We Got Here and Ways to Fix It
- Blenheim Palace & Blenheim Art Foundation Tino Sehgal at Blenheim Palace
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Marketing + Communications Campaign of the Year
Joint Winners
Kiplin Hall and Gardens Kiplin goes local
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Imperial War Museums IWM London's Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries
Shortlisted
- Durham Cathedral Museum of the Moon
- Historic England Uncover More: the Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage
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