Awards Archives | Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM)

Submissions for the 27th Annual MUSE Awards are Now Open

Posted on February 1, 2016December 11, 2024 by CAMM Admin

Submissions are now being accepted for the 27th annual MUSE Awards. Acceptance of applications will close at midnight on March 1st, 2016. Links to create and edit applications, detailed information on award categories, and entry policies, fees, and instructions are available on the MUSE Awards home page.

The MUSE awards recognize outstanding achievement in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) media. The American Alliance of Museums Media & Technology Professional Network’s annual awards are presented to institutions or independent producers who use digital media to increase audience engagement and enhance the GLAM experience. The MUSE awards celebrate scholarship, community, innovation, creativity, education, and inclusiveness. Categories for submission are as follows: Applications and APIs, Mobile Applications, Audio Tours and Podcasts, Multimedia Installations, Digital Communities, Online Presence, Education and Outreach, Open Culture, Games and Augmented Reality, Public Outreach, Interactive Kiosks, Video, Film, and Computer Animation, Interpretive Interactive Installations, and The Honeysett and Din Student Award (for student work only).

Winning projects for each category will be chosen by an international jury of GLAM media and technology professionals. In addition, the juries may choose to collectively honor a project that exemplifies the combined power of creative imagination and program effectiveness with the prestigious Jim Blackaby Memorial Award.

Winners will be announced live on May 26th at a free gala awards ceremony kicking off the American Alliance of Museums 2016 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in Washington, DC.

Submitted by Dacia Massengill, AAM

CAMM Members Receive Maritime Heritage Grants

Posted on April 27, 2015 by CAMM Admin

Congratulations to CAMM members who were among the recipients of the National Park Service’s Maritime Heritage Grants:

Replacement of the Sailing Ship Star of India‘s Weather Decks

Recipient: Maritime Museum Association of San Diego
Amount: $192,794
Project: The project will replace the weather decks of the Star of India, a National Historic Landmark and one of the world’s oldest active sailing ships.

USS Pampanito World War II Submarine Preservation Project

Recipient: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Amount: $192,754
Project: The USS Pampanito, a World War II submarine, will undergo drydocking and other maintenance and repairs to preserve the submarine in her 1945 configuration.

Restoration of the 1908 Steamboat Sabino

Recipient: Mystic Seaport Museum
Amount: $199,806
Project: This project will restore the 1908 steamboat Sabino, one of two surviving excursion steamers in the US and the only one on the East Coast.

National Fisherman: Documenting a Sea Change

Recipient: Penobscot Marine Museum
Amount: $40,784
Project: The project will digitize, re-house, and catalogue the museum’s twentieth-century image collection, allowing it to be published in the museum’s online collection database.

Conservation of the Purrington-Russell Panorama for Exhibition and Educational Programming

Recipient: Old Dartmouth Historical Society/New Bedford Whaling Museum
Amount: $49,845.25
Project: The New Bedford Whaling Museum will conserve, digitize, and make broadly accessible the 1848 “Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Round the World,” a maritime artwork depicting a nineteenth-century American whaling voyage.

USS Constitution: From Forest to Frigate

Recipient: USS Constitution Museum
Amount: $50,000
Project: The museum is creating a multi-media experience to welcome and introduce audiences to the history and significance of the USS Constitution, plus the repair process underway on board the ship.

Cradles and Cantilevered Shelving for the Museum’s Boat Collection

Recipient: Columbia River Maritime Museum
Amount: $33,549
Project: Grant funds will be use to purchase cantilevered racks and moveable cradles for boats up to 50 feet in length as part of the conversion of a recently purchased former retail hardware store and lumber warehouse into a state-of-the-art collections storage facility.

Critical Projects for the Continued Preservation of USS Olympia

Recipient: Independence Seaport Museum
Amount: $169,850
Project: Grant funds will be used to support a series of preservation and rehabilitation projects aboard the Cruiser Olympia.

USS Monitor Artifact Conservation and Outreach Project

Recipient: Mariners’ Museum
Amount: $99,900
Project: The Mariners’ Museum will acquire a specialized dry ice abrasion system to clean the Monitor‘s large wrought iron artifacts, including the ship’s 120-ton revolving gun turret, engine components, and structural elements such as armor plating.

Free Public Rides on Historic Small Craft

Recipient: Center for Wooden Boats
Amount: $28,000
Project: Grant funds will allow volunteer skippers to take the public out in historic sailboats, a wood-powered steam boat, an electric launch, and paddled skin-on-frame boats called Umiaks.

Preservation of the National Historic Landmark 1889 Tugboat Arthur Foss

Recipient: Northwest Seaport
Amount: $87,000
Project: This project will drydock the Arthur Foss to complete basic maintenance and repair needed since the last haulout in 2007 and complete actions critical to the preservation of the ship.

In the 2014 grant cycle, 35 grants in 21 states, totaling $2,607,025, were awarded under the first round of the re-established Maritime Heritage Grants Program. For a complete list of recipients goto http://www.nps.gov/maritime/grants/recipients.htm

Washington Awards Dinner

Posted on April 3, 2015December 11, 2024 by CAMM Admin

The National Maritime Historical Society and the Naval Historical Foundation are honoring Harold F. (Gerry) Lenfest, Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, USN, and Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski and celebrating the centennials of the U.S. Naval Reserve, the Office of Chief of Naval Operations and the formation of the U.S. Coast Guard at the Washington Awards Dinner at the National Press Club on Thursday, 23 April 2015.

Harold F. (Gerry) Lenfest is a philanthropist who has given millions to educational institutions, the arts, and to the cause of maritime history as seen in his generous support of the effort to renovate and preserve SS United States, which was, in its time, the fastest passenger ship in the world, and to the historic schooner Ernestina-Morrisey. Mr. Lenfest served as a reservist in the US Navy, and acknowledged its great impact in his life. In honoring Mr. Lenfest we honor the United States Navy Reserve which in 2015 will celebrate its centennial.

Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, USN, is the 30th Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), an office that was established in 1915, two years before the U.S. entry into World War I. He is the individual who leads the U.S. Navy, ashore and afloat, in its mission to protect and defend the global interests of the United States on the high seas. Admiral Greenert has been a strong promoter of this country’s navy and its history, particularly in the commemoration of the navy’s role in the War of 1812. We honor the centenary of the offi ce of CNO in honoring Admiral Greenert.

Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, a native of Baltimore, is this country’s longest-serving woman senator, having won election to the US Senate in 1986. In the House of Representatives she served on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee. She was chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science, and presently is the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Senator Mikulski has long been a strong advocate for the maritime industries of the Port of Baltimore and has worked energetically to restore the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

For more information

NMHS named 2013 Mariners Award recipient

Posted on July 11, 2013 by CAMM Admin

Jean Wort and Ron Oswald at recent CAMM Meeting.

NMHS named 2013 Mariners Award recipient

BATH, Maine, July 8, 2013…The National Maritime Historical Society has been selected by Maine Maritime Museum to receive the 2013 Mariners Award in recognition of its leadership role in raising awareness of our nation’s maritime heritage and the role seafaring has played in shaping civilization.

The award will be presented to the society’s Chairman Ronald L. Oswald in a ceremony at the Museum in August. Among the sponsors of the 2013 Mariners Award is General Dynamics Bath Iron Works.

“It is fitting that Maine Maritime Museum honor the National Maritime Historical Society with the Mariners Award during the Society’s 50th year,” says Amy Lent, MMM executive director. “Through the Society’s efforts over the past half-century the public’s knowledge and appreciation of the preeminent role that maritime issues and activities have played in our nation’s development, defense and culture has been greatly expanded.”

Originally founded in 1963 as an effort to rescue and preserve the Arthur Sewall & Co. Shipyard Bath-built bark Kaiulani, the Society evolved into a not-for-profit membership organization that seeks to educate Americans about our nation’s extraordinary maritime accomplishments and their continuing relevance for our nation’s prosperity and cultural vitality.

“Our two organizations have been on almost parallel courses for the past 50 years,” says Lent. “Founded less than a year apart, each for a single purpose, we have both evolved to become leaders in educating the public about the maritime heritage of our state and our nation and enlightening the American public about the continuing importance of maritime industries and activities, today and into the future.”

The Society’s initiatives encompass publications, educational programs, sail training, and preservation of historic ships. The Society communicates with its members through its quarterly publication, Sea History, which, with its 45,000 readers, is recognized as the pre-eminent journal of advocacy and education in the field. Its website, www.seahistory.org, provides information about U.S. maritime heritage as well as about today’s maritime activities, including a calendar of maritime-related events such as conferences, exhibits and ship news.

News Blog

Stay Up to Date on the Latest CAMM News

Category: Awards