2001 MUSE Award Winners

Interpretation/Education:

Science:

Gold (overall): Fact, Theory and Speculation, The Field Museum. (video)

Silver (audio): Nature Guide–Audio Interpretive Tour, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Silver (multimedia): Live from…Cardiac Surgery, Liberty Science Center.

Silver (video): The Role of People, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

Honorable Mentions: Quest for Volume – The Origin of the Electric Guitar, Experience Music Project. (multimedia)

Wilderness North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. (video)

Our Ever-Changing Image of T. Rex, The Field Museum. (video)

Nyanja: Africa’s Inland Sea, New England Aquarium. (video)

History:

Gold (overall): DJ Scratch, Experience Music Project. (video)

Silver (multimedia): The Rise of Independent Record Labels, Experience Music Project.

Silver (web site): The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden Web Site, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. (web site: http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency)

Silver (video): California Counterculture–The Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Honorable mentions: Melbourne’s Underbelly, Sewer Tour, Museum Victoria. (video)
Chi’s Adventure in Ancient China, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. (CD-ROM)

Historical Topics on the Holocaust: The Wexner Learning Center, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Art:

Gold (overall): Sound Lab at Experience Music Project, Experience Music Project. (multimedia)

Silver (web site): Tempus Fugit: Time Flies, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Silver (multimedia): Art as Experiment, Art as Experience, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Silver (video): Color and Fire, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Honorable Mentions: Mountains and Water: Exploring the Chinese Hand scroll, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (video)

American Visions–African American Perspectives in Art, The Art Institute of Chicago. Eva Egensteiner, Producer (video).

One Stop Warhol Shop, The Andy Warhol Museum. at the National Palace Museum, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. (DVD-ROM)

Institutional/Promotional:

Gold (overall): The Cultural Resource Center, National Museum of the American Indian. (video)

Silver (video): The Greatest is Yet to Come, Muhammad

Art Access, The Art Institute of Chicago.

Masterpieces of Chinese painting and Calligraphy Ali Center. (video)

Honorable Mentions: Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Hillwood Museum and Gardens. (video)

The Jewish Museum San Francisco–Connecting Art, Ideas and People, The Jewish Museum San Francisco.

Programs Emphasizing Two-way Communication:

Honorable mentions:

An Introduction to Tate Modern, Tate Modern. (multimedia)

The Great Lakes: A Superior Adventure, The Bell Museum of Natural History. (video)

Collections Database/Reference Resource:

Gold: EMP Digital Collection The Experience Music Project.

Silver: The Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN). (web site: http://www.scran.ac.uk)

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