• 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

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  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.