2024 Winners - Museums + Heritage Awards (2024)

Shortlisted

• TM Lighting TM MasterLight
• Fortecho Solutions Fortecho TGAI Tag
• 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 ScotlandThe DOS Project: Automated Digitisation Using Collaborative Robots
• Bev/Art Bev/Art Custodian: small, smooth and secure museum monitoring

Highly Commended

• Leeds Museums and Galleries Leeds Museums and Galleries Learning and Access Team

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
• Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester Trans-Inclusive Culture

Shortlisted

• American Museum & Gardens American Garden Deli
• The Bowes Museum Café Bowes
• Thackray Museum of Medicine Thackray Café: Explore Beyond Medicine

Sponsored by

Highly Commended

• Gloucester Cathedral A world class welcome awaits you at Gloucester Cathedral!

Shortlisted

• St Mary’s Guildhall A Warm Welcome at St Mary's Guildhall
• National Museums Liverpool Visitor Experience Team
• The Real Mary King's Close

Sponsored by

Shortlisted

• Art Fund (on behalf of 530 participating museums) The Wild Escape
• Cairngorms National Park Authority, Balmoral Estate, Lateral North Cairngorms Capercaiilie Project - Capercaillie lek experience
• Yorkshire and North East Film Archives Nature Matters
• The Story Museum Brilli-ANT: How someone small changed a big story

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

Shortlisted

• 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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In partnership with

Shortlisted

• Foundling Museum The Operations Team
• Tower Bridge Technical Team
• No.1 Royal Crescent Front of House Team
• Whitchurch Silk Mill Weaving Team

Highly Commended

• Wilberforce House Museum, Hull Museums - Changing Perspectives

Shortlisted

• National Galleries of Scotland and Rowan Alba Enriching Lives and Supporting Recovery
• Imperial War Museum Perspectives: Remembrance
• Warwick Arts Centre Playing Out in Canley

Sponsored by

Highly Commended

• The Danish Welfare Museum - Placed in Care (Anbragt)

Shortlisted

• The Franklin Institute Wondrous Space
• Swiss Alpine Museum Home. Tracing the Story of Mitholz
• Royal Court Affairs and Event Oman Across the Ages

In partnership with

Highly Commended

• National Museums NI - Museum on the Move

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
• Brunel Museum Mud, Flood and Fire

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
• Hackney Council & Pure Expression 1984 at Hackney Town Hall

In partnership with

Highly Commended

• University of St Andrews, Libraries and Museums - Toxic Books: Detecting arsenic in 19th century book covers
• Hardwick Hall, National Trust - A Stitch in Time: Conserving the Gideon Tapestries

Shortlisted

• The Bowes Museum The Silver Swan; Bring Back the Magic
• UK Parliament Elizabeth Tower; Restoring an Icon
• Historic England#Rooswijk1740 - Conservation of artefacts from the protected wreck of the Rooswijk

Highly Commended

• The Postal Museum - The Postal Museum Shop

Shortlisted

• Young V&A Young V&A Shop
• Ashmolean Museum Ashmolean Museum Shop
• English Heritage Trust Stonehenge Shop

In partnership with

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

Sponsored by

Highly Commended

• Kilmartin Museum Company Ltd - Kilmartin Museum's Permanent Exhibition

Shortlisted

• Historic Royal Palaces The Crown Jewels Exhibition
• Titanic Belfast The Titanic Experience Reimagined
• The Royal College of Surgeons of England The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England

In partnership with

Highly Commended

• Fitzwilliam Museum - Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

Shortlisted

• 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

In partnership with

Highly Commended

• Northampton Museums and Art Gallery Punk: Rage & Revolution

Shortlisted

• Thackray Museum of Medicine Private Parts
• Garden Museum Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical
• Historic Royal Palaces The Indian Army at the Palace

Sponsored by

In partnership with

Highly Commended

• National Portrait Gallery - The new National Portrait Gallery - Reopening Communications Campaign

Shortlisted

• The British Museum The Citi exhibition China's hidden century
• Wellcome Collection The Cult of Beauty
• V&A Dundee Tartan - a campaign for the 21st century
• Black Country Living Museum 75 babies - bringing the Black Country's past and present together