Three foreign museums receive American Award
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Last sunday the American Association of Museums announced the winners of the 2007 MUSE Awards recognizing excellence in all varieties of media programs produced by or for museums. Among the innovative projects to receive a prize were an animated Native American folktale, a weekly science news podcast, a sunken treasure map game, a Chicago blues audio tour, a butterfly habitat simulator, an opportunity to play photojournalist on a breaking story and a stock-market simulator game .
The MUSE Awards, now in their 18th year, are open to entries from museums around the world, and besides American museums three of the gold medal winners in the 11 categories were museums in Mexico City; Taipei, Taiwan; and Melbourne, Australia.
A complete list of the 2007 MUSE Award winners and judging criteria is available on the Web site of the American Association of Museums.
Read the press release
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