2001 MUSE awards deadline
EDTECH Editor-Beil
Please post this important message about the 2001 MUSE awards of the Amercian
Association of Museums.
Thank you
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Attention all museum media producers:
The February 16, 2001 deadline for the 2001 MUSE award competition of the
American Association of Museums is fast approaching.
The MUSE Awards were established in 1989 to recognize excellence in films and
videos produced by or for museums. Winners received their awards in a special
MUSE Award Reception at the American Association of Museum's annual meeting in
St. Louis, Missouri. If you have created a great film, video or interactive
program for a museum go to the MUSE award web page
(www.mediaandtechnology.org) to read all about the competition and fill out
your application. There are new categories this year which include new media
applications such as distance learning and publicly accessible databases among
other things.
For more information about the categories, see below. If you have questions
about the competition, my email address is debora...@metmuseum.org
Happy New Year,
Deborah Howes
MUSE Awards Coordinator
The new categories for the 2001 MUSE award are:
Educational/Interpretive:
Programs whose primary purpose is to create a context for a theme, subject,
collection object or area. This could be a self-contained program or an
exhibition element. This category is further divided into three subject areas:
art, history/culture and science. Examples: an introductory video on a Civil
War exhibition (history/culture sub-category), a CD-ROM about Chinese painting
(art sub-category), a web feature on magnetism (science sub-category.
Programs Emphasizing Two-way Communication:
Programs focusing on information exchanges among museum audiences, staff and
content experts. These programs should be Museum-driven and utilize
interactive technologies. Example: a distance-learning program between a
school and museum, whereby students ask questions of and receive answers from
a museum scientist working in the field.
Collections Database/Reference Resource:
Programs whose primary purpose is to collect and make easily accessible large
amounts of data. The program would support a wide range of subjects, not
necessarily related to one another. Examples: a collection area of a museum
web site, a timeline of science history.
Institutional/Promotional:
Programs designed to introduce or orient a viewer to a museum or exhibition
program in 10 minutes or less. Examples: an orientation video for high school
students on visiting a historic house; the main home page of a museum's web
site.
Deborah Howes
Museum Educator
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
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