MAGNA Shortlist Announced, Australian Museums and Galleries Association, 12 October 2020
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We are delighted to announce the shortlisted entries for the 2020 Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNAs). They started off slowly after opening in February, but after we extended the call for entries until August, to accommodate for members who have been in lockdown, working remotely, or focusing on higher priorities during the current health crisis, we received more entries than any previous year.
These wonderful projects illustrate just how innovative, resilient, and important our sector and our work can be. We are inspired and proud to see such a variety of entries from the smallest community museum to the national institutions, covering topics from rainbowfishes to Holocaust survivors, the moon landing to stunning art installations. Additionally, it is notable how effectively the sector is taking onboard important core principles such as the Indigenous Roadmap, ICIP Protocols, Standards, and Sustainable Development Goals and incorporating these standards into the way we create and share our projects. The Indigenous perspective and evidence of meaningful consultation and collaboration is apparent throughout the entries and is to be commended and encouraged.
The winners and other commended entries are picked from this shortlist. The awards will be presented as part of a bigger online event on 28 October 2020 – more information will be available very soon.
Congratulations all!
Indigenous Project or Keeping Place
Three Views
Mosman Art Gallery
Bunha-bunhanga: Aboriginal agriculture in the south-east
Art Gallery of South Australia
Gather – Connecting Aboriginal communities with collections and stories from the State Library of NSW
State Library of NSW
Seeing Country
Redland Art Gallery
Tiati Wangkanthi Kumangka (Truth-Telling Together)
Bay Discovery Centre
Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial
National Gallery of Australia
Museum of Sydney Space Renewal project
informed by Indigenous knowledge
Sydney Living Museums
Belonging, Contemporary Indigenous Art from Far North QLD
Indigenous Art Centre Alliance (IACA)
Interpretation, Learning & Audience Engagement
Sydney Jewish Museum Online Learning Project
Sydney Jewish Museum
ArtReach
Caloundra Regional Gallery
Immigration Stories
Western Australian Maritime Museum
Regenerate
Orange Regional Museum
Stories from Wonnarua Country
Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Conversations with Rain
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Yōkai Interactive Touch Wall
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Anzac Memorial Learning Program
Anzac Memorial
Ask a Survivor
Jewish Holocaust Centre
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art in the
classroom programs and resources
Art Gallery of South Australia
Road to Zero Education Complex @ Melbourne Museum
Museums Victoria
Permanent Exhibition or Gallery Fitout
Friends Of Donnelly Village Inc Museum
Friends Of Donnelly Village Inc
Mandurah Community Museum Courtroom Gallery
City of Mandurah
Betty Brown Historical Centre
Shire of West Arthur
Land | Life | Culture
Tweed Regional Museum
Power Up Electricity Museum
Shire of Manjimup
Bathurst Rail Museum
Bathurst Regional Council
Velvet, Iron, Ashes
State Library Victoria
Australian Sports Museum Refresh
Australian Sports Museum
Hyde Park Barracks Renewal
Sydney Living Museums
Research
Pocket Possibilities: ‘Freespace’ in Community
A tool for applying principles of ‘Freespace 2018’ to designing with Australian minority communities
Anna Ewald-Rice
Vis-ability: Artworks from the QUT Art Collection
QUT and QUT Art Museum
Talking About Stones: the Relational Museum and it’s Objects
Australian National University
New species of rainbowfishes from northern Australia: discovery through collections-based research and citizen science
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Temporary or Travelling Exhibition
Our stories and designs
Logan Art Gallery
Between the Moon and the Stars
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
New Woman
Museum of Brisbane
Julie Gough: Tense Past
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
SEVEN SIBLINGS FROM THE FUTURE
MOD.
Dr Rowen Matthews ‘Land is Emotional’
Online Exhibition and Virtual En Plein Air
Tamworth Regional Gallery
Janet Laurence: The Palm at the End of the Mind
The Johnston Collection
Johanna DeMaine:
the form : the function : the aesthetic
Caloundra Regional Gallery
paper on skin 2020
Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Their Triumph, Our Motivation:
125 years of Women’s Suffrage
Holdfast Bay History Centre
All in a Day’s Work
Orange Regional Museum
Māori Markings: Tā Moko
National Gallery of Australia
West: Out on the Edge
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Changed Forever: Legacies of Conflict
Shrine of Remembrance
Linear
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
ON THE MOVE
Sydney Living Museums
Spy: Espionage in Australia
National Archives of Australia
Born or Built? Our Robotic Future
Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre
Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson:
Step into Paradise
Powerhouse Museum
Mini Mega Model Museum
Museums Victoria
School Days
Hurstville Museum & Gallery
Eight Days in Kamay
State Library of NSW
Songs of Home
Sydney Living Museums/ State Archives of NSW
Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Art 2019
Art Gallery of South Australia
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our volunteer judges, and the institutions they work for who allow them to participate in this rewarding experience.
