Society for the History of Technology
2003 Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 FEBRUARY 2003

The Society for the History of Technology invites nominations for
its Dibner Award, established in 1985 to recognize excellence in
museums and museum exhibits that interpret the history of technology,
industry, and engineering to the general public.

Winning exhibits, in addition to being well designed and produced,
should raise pertinent historical issues. Artifacts and images should
be used in a manner that interests, teaches, and stimulates both the
general public and historians. The winners will be announced at the
Society's Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, USA October 16-19, 2003.

The Award consists of a plaque and up to $1000.00 to cover expenses for a
member of the design team to accept the award at the SHOT awards banquet.
The Society especially encourages nominations from local and regional
historical societies. "Virtual" exhibits are not eligible for the award.

Anyone, including the institution or individual responsible for its creation, may
nominate an exhibit for the Dibner Award. Exhibits should be currently on view
and have opened within the past two years. Nominations should include a
nomination form with names of possible reviewers (not affiliated with the
development of the exhibit) and materials that will assist the committee in
evaluating the exhibition (exhibit script, related publications, videotape,
photographs, educational materials, and website address).

Nominations should be sent to the committee chair:
Dan Holbrook, Marshall University, One John Marshall Drive,
Huntington, WV 25755, USA.
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All materials will be retained by SHOT for archival purposes.
The deadline for nominations has been extended to 15 February 2003

Nominating Form at
http://shot.press.jhu.edu/awards/dibnom.htm

2003 Dibner Award Committee:

Daniel Holbrook, Chair (Marshall University)
Maggie Dennis (National Museum of American History)
Ulf Hashagen (Deutsches Museum)
Adrienne Berney (Louisiana State Museum)
Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds)
Karen Utz (Sloss Furnaces)

Recent winners of the Dibner Award include:

2002 "Shinkansen," National Railway Museum, York,
curators Belinda Morris and Richard Gibbon;

and "World City," Museum of London,
curators Alex Werner and Karen Fielder

2001 "Writing On Hands: Memory and
Knowledge in Early Modern Europe", Trout
Gallery at Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania in cooperation with the Folger
Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., curators
Peter Lukehart and Claire Richter Sherman, and
"On Time", National Museum of American
History, curator, Carlene Stephens.

2000 "Universal Machine: Computers and
Connections," at the Powerhouse Museum, New
South Wales, Australia

1999 "History Works!", Historic Bethlehem
Partnership, Bethlehem, PA, USA and "Watkins'
Bethany: The Family, The Farm, The Mills",
Watkins Woolen Mill State Historic Site and
Park, Lawson, MO, USA

1998 "Fibres, Fabrics, and Fashion", Museum of
Science and Industry in Manchester, United
Kingdom

1997 "Steel, Stone and Backbone: building
New York's Subways 1900-1925", New York
Transit Museum, Brooklyn, New York

1996 Theodore Roosevelt Dam and Desert
Blooms Exhibit, Arizona Historical Society,
Pheonix, Arizona

1995 "The Historical Museum of Bielefeld",
Historisches Museum, Bielefeld, Germany

1994 "The Line of Battle", Wisconsin Veterans
Museum, Madison, Wisconsin; The American
Computer Museum,Bozeman, Montana; Museo
del Vidrio, Monterey, Mexico

1993 Boott Cotton Mills Museum, Lowell, MA;
"The Information Revolution," Herbert H. Dow
Museum, Midland, MI; National Science Center,
Delhi, India

Dr Graeme Gooday
Senior Lecturer
Director of Centre for Heritage Research
& Chair of the Division of History & Philosophy of Science
School of Philosophy
University of Leeds
Leeds, West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT
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phone: 0113 343 3274