Ottawa, April 26, 2023
Celebrate 2023’s CMA Award Winners
Yesterday, the museum community came together online to announce the 2023 Awards winners. We had a total of 10 winners and and additional 8 honourable mentions across the categories.
Thank you to our awards partners and sponsors, the Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums, Canada’s History and Ecclesiastical Insurance. Also, in the spirit of Volunteer Month, a big thank you to the dozens of volunteer jurors who poured over and carefully reviewed this year’s awards nominations.
Also, we would like to extend a big thank you to this year’s nominees and recipients, whose hard work and dedication has shown us what out sector can achieve and what it has to offer to the communities we care so deeply for.
Click here to view the full list along with descriptions of the winning people and projects.
Here are this year’s winners:
Award for Outstanding Achievement: Exhibitions
Winner: Art Gallery of Alberta — Scents of Movement, Scents of Place (Edmonton, AB)
Winner: Musée de la Gaspésie — À la confluence des mondes (Gaspé, QC)
Honourable mention: Ontario Science Centre — Behind Racism: Challenging the Way We Think (Toronto, ON)
Honourable mention: Canadian Museum of Nature — ᓄᓇᑦᑎᓂ ᑕᑯᒥᓇᕐᑐᖁᑎᕗᑦ / Our Land, Our Art (Ottawa, ON)
Award for Outstanding Achievement: Audience Outreach
Winner: MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises — Montréal en 5 sens (Montreal, QC)
Honourable Mention: Fort Calgary — Orange Shirt Day Walking Tour (Calgary, AB)
Award for Outstanding Achievement: Social Impact
Winner: MONOVA, the Museum of North Vancouver — Main exhibit gallery (Vancouver, BC)
Honourable Mention: Canadian Museum for Human Rights — Witness Blanket Conservation Project (Winnipeg, MB)
Award for Outstanding Achievement: Research
Winner: Beaverbrook Art Gallery — Wabanaki Modern: The Artistic Legacy of the 1960s “Micmac Indian Craftsmen” (Fredericton, NB)
Honourable mention: McMichael Canadian Art Collection — From Water to Water: A Way Through the Trees (Kleinburg/Vaughan, ON)
Honourable Mention: Goose Lane Editions and York University — Qummut Qukiria!: Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sapmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North (Frederiction, NB and Toronto, ON)
Honourable Mention: Pointe-à-Callière, cité d’archéologie et d’histoire de Montréal — Montréal, Capitale: L’exceptionnelle histoire du site archéologique du marché Sainte-Anne et du parlement de la province du Canada (Montreal, Capital City) (Montreal, QC
Award for Outstanding Achievement: Stewardship of Collections
Winner: Canadian Museum for Human Rights and The Manitoba Museum – Witness Blanket Conservation project
Award for Distinguished Service
Winner: John Tate
Museum Volunteer Award: Group
Presented in partnership with the Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums
Winner: Missisquoi Historical Society and Museum’s Apple Pie Festival Committee
Museum Volunteer Award: Individual
Presented in partnership with the Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums
Winner: Joan Goldfarb
Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Museums: History Alive!
Presented in partnership with Canada's History Society
Winner: McCord Stewart Museum – Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience
Barbara A. Tyler Award in Museum Leadership
Winner: Dr. Denis Longchamps
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