2006 MUSE Award Winners

Art

GOLD: Voices and Images of California Art: Robert Bechtle
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Interactive Kiosk

SILVER: Frida Kahlo-Multimedia Tour, Tate Modern with Antenna Audio
Handheld Interactive Multimedia Tour

BRONZE: Street to Studio: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
The Brooklyn Museum with Educational Web Adventures
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/street-to-studio/

HONORABLE MENTION: Red Studio: A MoMA Site for Teens, The Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/redstudio

HONORABLE MENTION: Princeton University Art Museum Interactives
Princeton University Art Museum with Second Story Interactive
http://etcweb.princeton.edu/asianart/

History and Culture

GOLD: The VUEguide at MOA, Museum of Anthropology, Canada, with Ubiquity Interactive
Handheld Multimedia Device

SILVER: Churchill and the Great Republic, Library of Congress with Terra Incognita Productions
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/interactive

BRONZE: Collection Icons at the de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with Without Walls, Rolling Orange, and Propp+Guerin, Touch-screen Multimedia Presentations

HONORABLE MENTION: The Pulitzer Photographs, The NewseumKiosk

HONORABLE MENTION: Watch the Birdie, McCord Museum, Canada
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca

HONORABLE MENTION: Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads, National Constitution Center with Night Kitchen Interactive, http://www.constitutioncenter.org/lincoln

HONORABLE MENTION:
The Bones of History, Nantucket Historical AssociationFilm

Science

GOLD: Science of Gardening, Exploratorium, http://www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/

SILVER: Tide Pool Olympics, Monterey Bay Aquarium with Cortina Productions
Multimedia Computer Interactive

BRONZE: A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered, J. Paul Getty Museum with Second Story Interactive, Kiosk

HONORABLE MENTION: Evolving Planet Exhibition, The Field MuseumAnimated Video Series

HONORABLE MENTION: Human or Machine?, Museum of Science, Boston, with Paula Sincero/InquiryLearn, Multi-user Interactive Kiosk

HONORABLE MENTION: Real-Cost Café , Monterey Bay Aquarium with Cortina Productions
Multimedia Computer Interactive

HONORABLE MENTION: Meet the Researcher: Dr. Greg Erickson, Burpee Museum of Natural History, DVD

Promotional and Marketing

GOLD: Old is New NPM Image Advertisement, National Palace Museum, TaiwanCD-ROM

SILVER: The New Newseum, The NewseumVideo

BRONZE: Transformation: Building the Rubin Museum of Art, Rubin Museum of Art with VideoArt Productions, Video

Database or Reference Resource

GOLD: Koret Discovery Interface: Making Sense of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with Method, Inc., Kiosk

SILVER: CMA Collections Online, Cleveland Museum of Art with Cognitive Applications

BRONZE: American Art at the Phillips Collection, The Phillips Collection with 4thought Inc.

HONORABLE MENTION: Today’s Front Pages, The Newseumhttp://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

Two-way Communication

GOLDIn Depth: Autopsy, COSI Columbus, Videoconferencing

SILVER: Eye Level, Smithsonian American Art Museum, http://eyelevel.si.edu

BRONZE: SFMOMA Artcasts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with Antenna Audio
Interactive Podcasts

HONORABLE MENTION: Witness to History, Arizona Memorial Museum Association
Videoconferencing Program

Jim Blackaby Ingenuity Award

Street to Studio: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
The Brooklyn Museum with Educational Web Adventures
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/street-to-studio/

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