Do you know the winners of Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence?

The Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence celebrate best practice within the world of museums, galleries, cultural and heritage visitor attractions, attracting hundreds of entries which battle it out to win one of 11 prestigious awards. Will you be among them?

The Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence 2015 will be presented at a prestigious dinner on Wednesday 29 April 2015, in the Historic Staterooms of 8 Northumberland in the heart of London.

These are the winners and highly commended for the 2014 Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence:

Best of the Best
Victoria and Albert Museum

Customer Service Award
Rochford District Council, Rayleigh Windmill

Highly Commended
• Edinburgh Museums & Galleries, Writers' Museum Volunteers

International Award
National Archives, The Netherlands, Het Geheugenpaleis, The Memory Palace - with your head in the archives

Highly Commended
• Kiss the Frog on behalf of Gemeentemuseum, The Netherlands, Wonderkamers

Project on a Limited Budget
Haslemere Educational Museum, The 125th Anniversary Campaign

Highly Commended
• Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL, The Micrarium

Restoration or Conservation
The Mary Rose Trust, The Mary Rose Museum

Highly Commended
• Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Once in a Whale

Temporary or Touring Exhibition
Victoria and Albert Museum, David Bowie is

Highly Commended
• Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Caught in the Crossfire: Artistic Responses to Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation

The Winstan Bond Trophy for Trading + Enterprise
Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, Developing the Gift Shop and Cafe

Highly Commended
• Glasgow Life, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Jack Vettriano: a Retrospective

Innovations Award
Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A Digital Explorer Map

Highly Commended
• Design Museum, The Future is Here: A New Industrial Revolution

Marketing Campaign
Horniman Museum and Gardens, Walrus on the Move

Highly Commended
• Tricolor Ltd and The Royal Artillery Museum, Keeping it Social, Firepower

Permanent Exhibition
The Mary Rose Trust, The Mary Rose Museum, The New Mary Rose Museum

Highly Commended
• Bath Preservation Trust, No 1 Royal Crescent - The Whole Story
• Barnsley MBC Arts, Museums & Archives, Experience Barnsley Museum & Discovery Centre

Educational Initiative
National Museums Liverpool, House of Memories - Northern Model

Highly Commended
• ss Great Britain Trust, The Future Brunels Programme

Culture Pros Pick
Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens, Kent

The Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence were founded in 2003. Click below to view the winners from previous years:

2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

Read more: www.museumsandheritage.com/awards