2005 MUSE Award Winners

Art

GOLD: Cycles: African Life through Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art with Terra Incognita Productions

SILVER: Van Gogh Museum Multimedia Tour, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, with Antenna Audio
Multimedia / PDA Tour

BRONZE: Architect Studio 3D, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust with Educational Web Adventures

HONORABLE MENTION: Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
www.metmuseum.org/toah

HONORABLE MENTION: The Place I Know: Visions of the South, Ogden Museum of Southern Art with Staniski Media, Video/Film

History and Culture

GOLD: Creation Theater, Ziibiwing Cultural Center, Michigan, with Monadnock Media, Video/Film

SILVER: Race & the American Creed, Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka, Kansas with Hillmann and Carr, Multi-Screen Video & 3D Icon Experience

SILVER: Modern Oregon Issues, Oregon Historical Society, DVD

SILVER: Voices in History, Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Baltimore with Antenna Audio
Sign Language Guide

BRONZE: Legendary Pirates, Pirate Soul Museum with Second Story Interactive, Kiosk

BRONZE: Mississippi Journey, National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium with Monadnock Media, Video/film

HONORABLE MENTION: What’s Going On? – California and the Vietnam Era Audio Tour
Oakland Museum of California with Acoustiguide Corporation, Audio Tour

HONORABLE MENTION: Price of Freedom: Americans at War
Smithsonian National Museum of American History with Second Story Interactive
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/

HONORABLE MENTION: Clubs, Bedrooms and Work, Chicago Historical Society with Silver Oaks Communications, DVD

HONORABLE MENTION: Bird watching Expedition: White House Tour for Children
White House Historical Association

Science

Gold: Water Smart Home, Museum Victoria, Australia
Touch Screen Computer and Water Sculpture

Silver: Whales: Voices in the Sea, Aquarium of the Pacific with Cortina Productions
Touch Screen with Audio Interactives

Silver: Dinosphere — Fossil Facts and Dig Deeper, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Kiosk

Bronze: The Promise of Fuel Cells, California Science Center, Multimedia Installation

Bronze: Science of Music, Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu/music/

Honorable mention: Action! An Adventure in Moviemaking, Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, DVD

Honorable Mention: Ology, American Museum of Natural History

Promotional and Marketing

Gold: Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Web Site, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
www.pittsburghkids.org

Silver: Unchained Memories, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center with Goodman/Rutt LLC, DVD and Video Wall

Bronze: Monterey Bay Aquarium Timeline, Monterey Bay Aquarium
www.montereybayaquarium.org/aa/timeline.asp

Honorable Mention: Asia Society Web Site Redesign, Asia Society, www.asiasociety.org

Honorable Mention: National Museum of American History Web site Redesign
Smithsonian National Museum of American History with Mediatrope, http://americanhistory.si.edu/

Database or Reference Resource

Silver: Collections Central Online. Brooklyn Children’s Museum
www.brooklynkids.org/emuseum

Bronze: Ohio Memory. Ohio Historical Society
www.ohiomemory.org

Honorable Mention: ArtNC. North Carolina Museum of Art
www.ncartmuseum.org/artnc

Two-way Communication & Telecollaboration

Special Recognition: No Master Over Me, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation with Educational Web Adventures, Electronic Field Trip

Jim Blackaby Ingenuity Award

Project Access, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville

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