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Congratulations to Donald Dunham the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the inclusive museum field with his paper Inclusivity, Objectivity, and The Ideal: The Museum as Utopian Space

At first glance the contemporary “Cabinet of Curiosities” appears to provide all the necessary ingredients for inclusion into the utopic environment: the museum program generally provides access to all, a scholarly objectivity in the display of curated artifacts, and, in exhibit design, the object displayed “ideally.”

The museum as an “ideal” venue (outside the intended or original context) for select objects, for example, can be decoded through the British Museum’s neo-classical pedimented entry as well as through the Museum of Modern Art’s 1939 International Style structure designed by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone as an embodiment of the Modernist Utopian ideology.

However, not all museum structures, spaces, and installation furniture appear to fit the utopian template. Daniel Libeskind’s deconstructivist Jewish Museum in Berlin does not conjure up “perfect worlds,” in fact quite the opposite. Nevertheless, within the dystopian shadow of history lie the roots of Libeskind’s discontinuous void: the survival and rebirth of a broken people, a concept also found in the utopian work of the Russian Constructivists.

This paper examines the museum as a utopian space; using case studies and contrasting museum agendas, “The Ideal” is explored and challenged as prerequisite in the planning and maintenance of museum space.

Congratulations to all of the finalists for the International Award for Excellence in the inclusive museum field:

• Emmanuelle Cadet -Mute National Institutions towards Inclusive Approaches: When the French Cultural Heritage System Meets its Limits
• Gunho Chae and Jungwha Kim - Rethinking Museum Management by Exploring the Potential of Social Tagging Systems in Online Art Museums
• Lisa-Anne DeGregoria Kelly - Zoo Educator Learning Communities: Outcomes and Sustainability
• Kathleen J. Miller - Inclusive Marketing in the Constructivist Museum: A Study of Non-visitors’ Needs
• Alyssa Paterson - Addressing Gifted Museum Visitors’ Unique Needs: Suggestions for Program Adaptation
• Cathrynne Salter-Jansen - Simon’s Town Museum’s Project Phoenix: A Journey towards Transformation from 1996 to 2010
• Patrizia Schettino and Sarah Kenderdine - Place-Hampi: Narratives of Inclusive Cultural Experience
• Maggie Burnette Stogner - The Immersive Cultural Museum Experience – Creating Context and Story with New Media Technology
• Deniz Ünsal - Planning Cities and Museums in the Age of Globalization