Recognizing achievement in heritage Web site design

Each year, Museums and the Web sponsors the Best of the Web competition. Museum Web sites from around the world were nominated in a variety of categories and judged by an independent panel of judges.

See the Winners, linked from each category!

This year's categories include:

Best On-line Exhibition

Best E-Services Site

Best Museum Web Site Supporting Educational Use

Best Innovative or Experimental Application

Best Museum Professional's Site

Best Museum Research Site

Best Overall Museum Web site

As well as choosing the best in each category, the judges pick the "Best of the Web" from all the sites nominated. This award recognizes the outstanding nature of a site and its overall contribution to the institution, museum profession and cultural informatics community.

Nominations

Members of the community suggested sites for the judges to review. See if your favourite site has been nominated.

Prior winners were:

Past Best of the Web Winners
1997	The Exploratorium
1998	MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
1999	Walker Art Center
2000	State Hermitage Museum
2001	Bhutan - Fortress of the Gods
2002	The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame

Overall Chairs of the Best of the Web Contest

Jim Angus
Website Project Manager, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke USA

David Greenfield
New Media Coordinator, Skirball Cultural Center, USA

Best of the Web Judges

All sites will be reviewed by a committee of judges.

Katherine Burton Jones Director Information Technology and Media Services Harvard Divinity School USA Coralia Alexandra Costas PR Officer "Moldova" National Museum Consortium Romania Matt Crenshaw Web Managing Editor Publications Chicago Historical Society USA James Devine Head of Education and Digital Media Resources Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery University of Glasgow Scotland Karen Elinich Director, Educational Technology Programs Educational Technology Programs The Franklin Institute Science Museum USA Peter Gorgels Web-editor Education Rijksmuseum Amsterdam The Netherlands Norbert Kanter Director Zetcom AG Germany Susannah McGowan Instructional Designer Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship Georgetown University USA

Marla Misunas Manager, Collections Database Collections Information & Access San Francisco Museum of Modern Art USA Lawrence Monda Senior Programer / Analyst National Museums of Kenya Kenya Joan Nordbotten Associate Professor Department of Information Science University of Bergen Norway Aileen O'Riordan Online Project Manager Collections & Research National Maritime Museum United Kingdom Virginia Pifko Assistant Registrar for Collections Princeton University Art Museum USA Heather Rostker Project Manager/Exhibit Developer Office of Exhibits National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution USA Kevin Sumption Associate Director Knowledge Information Management Powerhouse Museum Australia Kathy Talley-Jones Web Producer and Writer USA