Other Awards
* Canadian Museums Association Awards 2010
Each year the CMA presents Awards of Outstanding Achievement to museums for exceptional projects. Among this year’s recipients are three THEN/HiER partners:
The McCord Museum for Les Aventuriers Nomades, a bilingual educational program for recent immigrant students.
The Museum of Vancouver as a striking example of effective innovation to meet the challenging economic times.
The Glenbow Museum for Vistas: Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway as a visual and critical record of the growing popularity of mountain scenes in Canadian landscape painting of the post-confederation period, and as a record of the exploration of Western Canada.
Other awards went to:
The Canada Science and Technology Museum and the Portrait Gallery of Canada for Karsh: Image Maker; as well as photographs, visitors could discover the history of the artist and the tools that Karsh used to create his images.
The Creamery Square Heritage Centre in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, which was developed specifically to meet the needs of rural heritage sites in Nova Scotia.
City of Toronto — Museum Services for their Doors Open Toronto - The First Decade 2000-2009 marketing campaign.
Paul J. Johnson of St. John's NL, for his undying contributions to the Canadian heritage sector.
* Historical Consciousness: Infusing Identity and Citizenship
Author: Linda-Rae J. Carson
Description: Winner of the 2005 Governor General’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History, this project seeks to inspire students in grades 9 to 12 History, Social Studies or Language Arts courses to develop an understanding of and interest in the study of Canadian history. The activities are best introduced at the beginning of a program in Canadian history. Over three 60-minute class periods and two weeks’ independent research time, students conduct an investigation into one side of their family to determine how events in Canadian history and those in the world have defined the decisions one’s family had to make, and as a result, its sense of Canadian identity and citizenship. Activities are divided into four parts: 1) An Overview of Canadian Identity (in-class discussion and independent textbook work); 2) Historical Investigation (student independent research and essay); 3) Reflections on the Historical Investigation (guided independent reflection and class discussion); and 4) Assessment (conducted by the teacher). Activities assist students to build their understanding of national and personal identity, international and national historical events, the history of Canadian immigration policy, and key concepts in historical thinking such as historical continuity and change, and cause and effect.
Web Link/Contact: http://www.historysociety.ca/gga.asp?subsection=pas
* Canadian Museums Association Awards for Outstanding Achievement
Every year the Canadian Museum Association recognizes outstanding achievements by museums in Canada. A volunteer jury conducts a peer review of all submissions, and successful recipients are honoured at the CMA's annual conference. Several of the awarded projects relate to history education and THEN/HiER felt that its website was an ideal platform to present these projects.
Every year the Canadian Museum Association recognizes outstanding achievements by museums in Canada. A volunteer jury conducts a peer review of all submissions, and successful recipients are honoured at the CMA's annual conference. Several of the awarded projects relate to history education and THEN/HiER felt that its website was an ideal platform to present these projects.
The descriptions and pictures of the projects were provided to us by the CMA in collaboration with the awarded institutions. The more detailed descriptions of the projects have been provided by the institution.
Education Programming Category (CMA AWARD 2008)
Project Title: Keys to History
Institution: McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Quebec.
This is an on-line project directed to both the general public and schools. It comprises over 135,000 digitized artefacts from the collections of the McCord and seven partner museums in five provinces, accompanied by a wealth of related information, organized in themes, games, and virtual exhibitions.
To explore Keys to History go to http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/
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Education Programming Category (CMA AWARD 2007)
Project Title: Vimy Ridge Education Project
Institution: Calgary Military Museums Society (CMMS), Calgary, Alberta
The Calgary Military Museums Society designed an educational program for a group of local teenage boys involved in a hockey tournament in Germany. The museum organized an itinerary and created a series of engaging activities for the adolescents to learn about Canadian military history during their European trip.
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Museums and Schools Partnership Category (CMA AWARD 2009)
Partner Institutions: Morse Museum and Cultural Centre and its partner, Morse High School, Morse, Saskatchewan
The partnership initiated by the Morse Museum and Cultural Centre involves the participation of volunteer high school students in the development and delivery of education programs. These students are instrumental in the delivery of multi-station, animated school tours within the museum’s various period rooms and other public facilities. Both partners enjoy a unique symbiotic relationship built over 20 years, through which the museum benefits from the participation of reliable, motivated interpreters while offering opportunities for senior students to acquire a range of skills in the area of leadership, acting, and collection management.
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Research Category (CMA AWARD 2009)
Project title: “The Eureka Project: The Mactaggart Collection”
Institution: University of Alberta Museums and Collections Department, Edmonton, Alberta
The Mactaggart Collection, consisting of over 700 rare works of Asian art including textiles, paintings, handscrolls and artefacts from ancient and modern East Asia is located in the 6000 square foot state-of-the-art “Eureka Space.” Exhibitions featuring this collection have generated significant research activity involving national and international scholars. Visitors are encouraged to consult the open storage. The onsite database with comments on the collection, on exhibitions and advanced research notes is available for consultation anywhere in the world.
For the online component of the Mactaggart Collection see http://museums.ualberta.ca/mactaggart
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Exhibition Category (CMA AWARD 2008)
Project Title: “Afghanistan: A Glimpse of War”
Institution: The Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario
This temporary exhibition explored the human experience of war through a series of photographic and film vignettes, principally recorded by the journalists Stephen Thorne and Garth Pritchard, who had unprecedented access to Canadian bases and units during their visits to Afghanistan (2002-2008). Their material was used to develop intimate personal histories from the perspective of individual Canadian soldiers and Afghans.
