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  • IAM Awards 2024

  • Congratulations to the award winners for 2024! Thank you for sharing 

  • your amazing work with us.

    Welcome Award

  • Quincy Children’s Museum


    Anniversary Awards

  • 10 Years – National Museum of the American Sailor
  • 50 Years – The Grove National Historic Landmark
  • 100 Years – Quincy Art Center


    Volunteer Service Award

  • Daphne H. Sumner – St. Clair County Historical Society – 30 Years


    Best Practices Awards


    Exhibits

    Awards of Merit

  • Gallatin County Tourism Committee/Ohio River Visitors Center – Award of Merit - Salt: Equality’s First Innovation
  • DuPage County Historical Museum the Roaring Elgin – Award of Merit
  • Awards of Excellence

  • GAR Military Museum in Aurora – Award of Excellence – Hidden Warriors
  • Pick Museum of Anthropology – Good Food – Award of Excellence
  • The Raupp Museum, The Korean Cultural Center of Chicago and the National Indo American Museum – Summer Weddings – Award of Excellence
  • History Center of Lake Forest – Lake Bluff – Deeply Rooted and Rising High: African American Experiences in Lake Forest – Award of Excellence
  • Lake Bluff History Museum – The Lake: Lake Michigan and Michi Gami – Award of Excellence
  • Abraham Lincoln Public Library and Museum – Here I Have Lived – Award of Excellence
  • Awards of Superior Achievement

    Illinois State Museum – Growing Up X – Award of Superior Achievement

     

    Special Projects

  • Addison Historical Museum – Museum Orientation Video – Award of Excellence
  • Elmhurst History Museum – In Pursuit of Happiness exhibit, supporting programs – Award of Excellence
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    Educational Programming

  • Naper Settlement – Award of Merit – Field Watchers
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    Building Site Preservation

  • GAR Military Museum – Award of Excellence – Memorial Hall Restoration

  • Printed Materials

  • DeMoulin Museum – Coloring book – Award of Merit
  • DeKalb County History Center – Cornsilk magazine – Award of Excellence
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    Community Partnerships

  • GAR Military Museum – Veteran of the Month Program – Award of Merit
  • Champaign County History Museum – History Harvest – Award of Excellence
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    Conservation/Collections

  • Elmhurst History Museum – Award of Superior Achievement – Jane Byrd Bryant painting restoration
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    Virtual Materials

  • Illinois Humanities – A Bicentennial Crossroads: 200 Years of Continuity and Change in Rural Illinois

 

    Innovation Awards

  • Illinois Aviation Museum – Faces of Flight Exhibit
  • DuPage Children’s Museum – Wonder Room
  • Chicago Fair Trade Museum – Pop-Up Museum
  • Illinois State Museum – The Rec Room – Immersive Hands-on Space

 

    Museum Volunteer of the Year

  • Gina Goldsmith – DeMoulin Museum

 

    Museum Professional of the Year

  • Julia Kelly – Krannert Art Museum


Watch the 2024 IAM Awards Ceremony here:


Prior Years

You can view prior Illinois Association of Museums Annual Conference winners by clicking on the years below: 

Award of Excellence Winner for the year is the button or the button underneath it. 

2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
2009 2008      

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