2017 Recipients

Overall Award Winner

• Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration
  Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
  Philadelphia, PA

Special Achievement (alphabetical order by exhibit title)

• Altered State: Marijuana in California
  Oakland Museum of California
  Oakland, CA
• Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road
  The Getty Research Institute and The Getty Conservation Institute
  Los Angeles, CA
• The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe
  Asian Art Museum
  San Francisco, CA
• William Conner House
  Conner Prairie
  Fishers, IN
• The Wonder Sound
  The New Children’s Museum
  San Diego, CA

Honorable Mention (alphabetical order by exhibit title)

• Cultural Expressions
  National Museum of African American History and Culture
  Washington, DC
• Extraordinary Ideas from Ordinary People
  San Diego Natural History Museum
  California
• Girls Writing the World: A Library ReImagined
  Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace/ Girl Scouts of the USA
  Savannah, GA
• Tamanwit: Unwritten Laws and Beliefs, Wanapum of Priest Rapids
  Wanapum Heritage Center
  Mattawa, WA

2016 Recipients

• Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
  National Museum of the American Indian
  Washington, DC
• Coast to Cactus in Southern California
  San Diego Natural History Museum
  California
• National Geographic Sacred Journeys
  Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
  Indiana
• Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio
  Denver Art Museum
  Colorado
• The Science Behind Pixar
  Museum of Science
  Boston, MA
• Living Seashore
  National Aquarium
  Baltimore, MD
• Object Project
  National Museum of American History
  Washington, DC
• Pacific Worlds
  Oakland Museum of California
  California

2015 Recipients

• State of the Art
  Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
• Your Brain
  Franklin Institute
• “Interstitial Area Installations”
  National September 11 Memorial Museum
• Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in British Columbia
  Royal British Columbia Museum

Honorable Mention

• Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial
  The Office of the City Clerk Archives and Records Management Division (Boston City Archives)
• The Big Graph
  Eastern State Penitentiary
• Freeport [No. 007]: Celest Boursier-Mougenot
  Peabody Essex Museum

2014 Recipients

Special Distinction

• Imaginative Design and Interpretation
  Design for the Modern Child
  Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Innovative Integration of Design and Content
  First Peoples
  Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• Exemplary Model of Creating Experiences for Social Engagement
  Jungle Trails
  Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Ohio
• Outstanding Connections Between Design, Content and Community Context
  Nature Lab
  Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Calif.

Honorable Mention

• Shop Life
  Lower Eastside Tenement Museum, New York City

2013 Recipients

Special Distinction

• Aesthetics and Materials
  Light: Installations by Bruce Munro
  Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA
• Messaging and Engagement
  Health Happens Here
  The California Museum, Sacramento
• Community Engagement
  Out in Chicago
  Chicago History Museum
• Alignment of Site and Mission: Suite of Exhibitions
  Sky, Life, Land, First Peoples, Great Salt Lake, and Past Worlds
  Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City

2012 Recipients

Overall Excellence

• Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to the Present
  Detroit Institute of Arts

Special Distinction

• Eloquent Presentation of Topic
  Across the Wire: Voices from Heart Mountain
  Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center, Powell, WY
• Innovative Reframing of Collections
  Dinosaur Hall
  Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
• Exemplary Inclusion of Community Voices
  Coming to California
  Oakland Museum of California

Honorable Mention

• Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
  The New York Public Library, New York City