Awards Winners
Revealing the winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of the AHI 2023 Engaging People Awards. These are the very best of the entries we received this year, from an exceptionally strong field of 44 projects representing a wide range of groups, organisations, sites and interpretation practitioners.
The winner of each category was revealed at the Engaging People Awards Dinner on Thursday 12th October, during this year’s AHI Conference in Lincoln.
With heartfelt thanks to our overall and individual category sponsors, and to the hard-working Awards Team, judging panel and site judges, who make this celebration of interpretive excellence possible.
Indoors Category - Sponsored by Fraser Randall
Winner: National Famine Museum, Strokestown Estate, County Roscommon
The compelling and emotive story of the Great Irish Famine, told through the lens of the Strokestown Estate archive.
Finalists:
Marble Hill Revived, English Heritage & Skellon Studio
Reimagining Wordsworth, The Wordsworth Trust & Nissen Richards Studio
Outdoors Category - sponsored by NovaDura
Commended:
Revealing, Reviving and Restoring Great Linford Manor Park, The Parks Trust & Outside Studios
More Than Words, The Sensory Trust and Wheal Martyn Clayworks
Temporary Event or Activity category – Sponsored by BeWunder
Winner: ‘The Future Belongs To What Was As Much As What Is’ by Morag Myerscough at Housesteads Roman Fort, English Heritage
A colourful contemporary artwork inspired by the original Roman gatehouse at Housesteads, created by Myerscough with the local community.
Commended:
Permissible Beauty, Historic Royal Palaces and University of Leicester
OOT & ABOOT – Talking Coquetdale, The Out of Town Museum (OOT), part of Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery, Alnwick
Community Engagement category - Sponsored by Tandem Design
Winner: Rebuilding Lives: 50 years of Ugandan Asians, Navrang Arts
Volunteer-led exhibitions, events and activities to commemorate Leicester’s Ugandan Asian community’s expulsion from Uganda and celebrate rebuilding their lives in the UK.
Commended:
Open All Hours at Wirksworth, New Opportunities Wirksworth & inHeritage
Finalists:
Exchange Project, SS Great Britain Trust
South Asia Gallery: A British Museum partnership at Manchester Museum, Manchester Museum & South Asia Gallery Collective
Calling Out Climate Change category – Sponsored by The Way Design
Winner: Changes in a Lifetime: Climate Cafés at Stromness Museum, Orkney Natural History Society Museum
Community conversations about changes in people’s lives that could be attributed to climate change, inspired by the museum collections.
Finalist:
A World of Good at Wakefield Museum, Wakefield Museums & Castles
The Lara Clare Munden Award for Young Interpreter of the Year – Sponsored by Michael Hamish Glen and Bright White
Lara was a gifted young interpreter who died tragically young and is remembered through this Award.
Winner: Catherine Wright
Outstanding Contribution to Interpretation – Sponsored by AHI
Winner: Carolyn Lloyd Brown
Award for Excellence in Interpretation – Sponsored by AHI
Winner: Changes in a Lifetime: Climate Cafés at Stromness Museum, Orkney Natural History Society Museum
