The Canadian Museums Association has announced the winners of its 2023 awards.
The Barbara A. Tyler Award in Museum Leadership goes to Denis Longchamps, the executive director of the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, in Waterloo, Ont.
Awards for outstanding achievement in exhibitions go to the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton for its exhibition, Scents of Movement, Scents of Place, and to the Musée de la Gaspésie in Quebec for À la confluence des mondes.
The audience outreach winner was the Centre des mémoires montréalaises while the social impact award went to the Museum of North Vancouver.
The research award went to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, N.B., for Wabanaki Modern: The Artistic Legacy of the 1960s “Micmac Indian Craftsmen.”
The collections stewardship award went to Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Manitoba Museum for their Witness Blanket conservation project.
The winner of the distinguished service award was John Tate of the Nova Scotia Museum, while museum volunteer awards went to Joan Goldfarb of Toronto, and the Missisquoi Historical Society and Museum’s Apple Pie festival committee in Quebec.
The Governor General's history award went to the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal for Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience.
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Source: Canadian Museums Association
