Category Conservation  

• Conversion of De Hoorn brewery into a creative hub, Leuven, Belgium

• Byzantine Church of St. Peter in Kastania, Mani, Greece

• Traditional Watermill in Agios Germanos, Prespes, Greece Grand Prix

• The French Hospital in Faskrudsfjordur, Iceland

• The Diocletian Baths: charterhouse and open-air pool, Rome, Italy

• Museum Oud Amelisweerd in Bunnik, Utrecht, The Netherlands

• Fort Kijkuit in Kortenhoef, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

• Cathedral and Diocesan Museum in Santarém, Portugal

• The King's Little Pathway in El Chorro gorge, Malaga, Spain Grand Prix & Public Choice Award

• Six Churches in Lorca, Murcia, Spain

• Knockando Woolmill in Aberlour, Moray, United Kingdom

• Wimpole Hall’s Gothic Tower in Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Grand Prix

Category Research and Digitization

• Preservation of underwater archaeological sites, European project coordinated in Copenhagen, Denmark

• ‘Granaries of Memory’, Bra, Italy

• Digitisation of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center’s collection in Leiden, The Netherlands

• Conservation study of the village Gostuša in Pirot district, Serbia Grand Prix

• Prehistoric Picture Project. Pitoti: Digital Rock-Art, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Category Dedicated service

• Employees and activists of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Grand Prix

• Mrs. Giulia Maria Crespi, Milan, Italy Grand Prix

• Friends of the Storfjord, Sunnmøre, Norway

Category Education, training and awareness-raising

• ‘The Great War through the eyes of a child’, Roeselare, Belgium

• ‘Star in School’, Karlovac, Croatia

• ‘Adopt a Monument’, Tampere, Finland Grand Prix

• Preserving and promoting dance heritage, Berlin, Germany

• ‘The Little Museum of Dublin’, Dublin, Ireland

• Cultural Heritage Education Programme: “Apprendisti Ciceroni”, Milan, Italy

• Sustainable Development of Mourela Plateau, Peneda-Gerês National Park, Portugal

• ‘Heritage Schools’, Bristol, United Kingdom

From European countries not taking part in the EU’s Creative Europe programme:

Category Dedicated Service

• National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve "Niasvizh", Niasvizh, Belarus

European Museum of the Year Award 2016

• POLIN: Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland

The Council of Europe Museum Prize 2016

• European Solidarity Centre, Gdańsk, Poland

Kenneth Hudson Award 2016

• Micropia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Silletto Prize 2016

• Vukovar City Museum, Vukovar, Croatia

Micheletti Award 2016

•  Den Gamle By, Aarhus, Denmark

DASA Award 2016

• Micropia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Živa Award 2016

• The Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor – Cricoteka

Children in Museums Award 2016

• GeoFort, Herwijnen, The Netherlands

Museum of the Year 2016

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Norwegian Museum Of The Year 2016

• Vest-Agder Museum, Kristiansand, Norway

Customer Service Award

• Birmingham Conservation Trust, Customer Service to Die For: The Coffin Works Birmingham 

Project On A Limited Budget

• Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Dodo Roadshow

Restoration or Conservation

• BECK and Cheshire West and Chester Council, Lion Salt Works Restoration

Temporary or Touring Exhibition

• Victoria and Albert Museum, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

The International Award

• Horsens Museum and Kvorning Design & Communication, Horsens Prison Museum

Trading + Enterprise

• Black Country Living Museum, Forging a Culture of Enterprise & Self Reliance at BCLM

Innovation

• Natural History Museum, David Attenborough's First Life: A Virtual Reality Experience

Marketing Campaign

• Bodleian Libraries, Promotion of Bodleian Libraries' 12 millionth book - the 'lost Shelley Poem'

Permanent Exhibition

• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, The Lister Project

Educational Initiative

• Historic Royal Palaces, Movie Maker Mission

Volunteers of the Year Award

• Horniman Museum & Gardens, Bobby Ogogo

• RNLI Henry Blogg Museum, RNLI Henry Blogg Museum volunteers

Fundraiser of the Year

• Biggar Museum Trust, Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum

• York Art Gallery, York, United Kingdom

The best project on work with the regional community

• “3rd Ural biennale of contemporary art”. Alisa Prudnikova, Director of the Ural branch of the National Center of Contemporary arts, Yekaterinburg.

Intermuseum festival Grand-prix 

• The State Darwin museum, Moscow

The best project on presentation and interpretation of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage

• “Boris Godunov – interpretations”, The Moscow Kremlin museums, Moscow

The best project in the sphere of museum education

• The museum educational center “New Farm”, The State museum-reserve “Peterhof”, Saint-Petersburg

The best project oriented on work with the people with disabilities or special needs

• The Project for Blind and Visually Impaired Children «Feeling the Palace », The Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum, Saint-Petersburg

The best project aimed at social interaction

• “Thematic conversation”, The State Yaroslavl museum-reserve, Yaroslav

Special award given by Youth jury of the Festival 

• Museum of contemporary art PERMM, Perm

BankGiro Loterij Museumprijs 2016

• Camp Vught National Memorial, Vught, The Netherlands

Portuguese Museum Award 2016​

• Museu da Misericórdia, Porto, Portugal

Swedish Museum of the Year 2016

• Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Sandford Awards 2016

• Beaulieu

• Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

• The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum

• Conisbrough Castle

• Crich Tramway Village

• Cromford Mills

• DIG

• The Dorman Museum

• Durham Cathedral

• Durham University Oriental Museum

• Durham University Palace Green Library

• The Fitzwilliam Museum

• Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre

• Haslemere Educational Museum

• Head of Steam- Darlington Railway Museum

• Helston Museum

• Holkham Estate

• Horniman Museum and Gardens

• Kensington Palace

• King Richard III Visitor Centre

• Knebworth House

• Layer Marney Tower

• Lincoln Castle

• Lismore Castle Arts

• London Canal Museum

• The Mary Rose Trust

• Museum of Hartlepool

• Museum of Lincolnshire Life

• Museum of London

• National Museum of the Royal Navy

• The Rosslyn Chapel Trust

• Selly Manor Museum

• The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

• Stonehenge-English Heritage

• Sudbury Hall and the National Trust Museum of Childhood

• Sulgrave Manor

• Tamworth Castle

• Tower Bridge Exhibition

• Tower of London

• Worcester cathedral

• York Art Gallery

• York Castle Museum

Best Branding Campaign

• Gold - #GettyInspired by The Getty

• Silver - SFMoMA brand identity by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

• Bronze - The Museum of Australian Democracy / Old Parliament House Australia brand identity by MAXCO

• Bronze - The Opéra national de Paris brand identity by Dream On

Best Temporary Exhibition Communications

• Gold - Van Gogh's Bedrooms by the Art Institute of Chicago

• Silver - International Pop by the Philadelphia Museum of Art

• Bronze - The Flying Poet, Santos Dumont by the Fundação Roberto Marinho

Best Scenography For A Temporary Exhibition

• Gold - The Flying Poet, Santos Dumont by the Fundação Roberto Marinho

• Silver - ZieZo Marokko at Tropenmuseum Junior Amsterdam by Kossmann.dejong

• Bronze - Machinic Life at UAE Museum of the Future by Tellart

Best Scenography For A Permanent Collection

• Gold - The Canadian Museum for Human Rights' scenography by Ralph Appelbaum Associates

• Silver - Action Stations by the Australian National Maritime Museum

• Bronze - The main exhibition of the Museum of Tomorrow by Museum of Tomorrow

Best App

• Gold - JourneyMaker by the Art Institute of Chicago

• Silver - M+ Sigg Collection app by M+, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority

• Bronze - Audio that Moves You by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Best Website

• Gold - The V&A website by the Victoria and Albert Museum

• Silver - The New SFMOMA.Org by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

• Bronze - The new website of the Opéra national de Paris by Dream On

Best Permanent Exhibition

• Estonian National Museum

Best Exhibition

• Estonian Health Care Museum: Natural Death

Best Scientific Project

• Art Museum of Estonia: Rode Altarpiece in Close-up

Best Marketing Project

• University of Tartu Museum

Enterprise Estonia Tourism Development Centre for the 2016 Most Visitor-Friendly Museum

• Seto Farm Museum

Keck Award 2016

• Natural History Museum: Blue Whale Project, London, United Kingdom

To be announced ..

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Best Community Action Project

• Operation Nightingale

Best Contribution to a Heritage Project by Young People

• Frank James Hospital project

Best Rescue of a Heritage Site

• The rescue of Aire Street, Goole

Best Research Project

• Port Sunlight Village Trust and Wirral Borough Council: The Port Sunlight Local Listed Building Consent Order

Historic England Followers’ and Telegraph Readers’ Favourite

• Clevedon Pier and Heritage Trust Ltd for the community action project Clevedon Pier Visitor Centre

Intervention in Existing Architectural Heritage

• Ceuta Public Library, Spain, Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos

• E/C house , Portugal, SAMI-Arquitectos studio

Exterior Spaces

• Intervention in the environs of Caaveiro Monastery, Spain, Isabel Aguirre Urcola and Celestino García Braña

Urban Planning

• Masterplan for the city of Monza, Ubistudio

Disclosure

• Almeida/Ciudad Rodrigo – A fortificaçao da Raia Central, Fernando Cobos (Spain) and Joâo Campos(Portugal)

Soft Power Organization

• Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada

IMAGINES Project of Influence 2016

• DOMunder / Tinker Imagineers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Best in Heritage Project of Influence 2016

• Nuragic Sculptures of Monte Prama, Sardinia, Italy