AAMG Awards!
AAMG Champion of Creativity Award – 2026
Deadline March 31, 2026
AAMG Champion of Creativity recognizes individuals in the US academic museum profession who are making an impact by bringing one of the many dimensions of creativity to their institutions, communities, and/or the museum field. Awards recognize a specific achievement or body of work that has benefited the honoree’s academic institution, community, or the broader academic museum field related to the 2026 AAMG annual conference theme: Creativity.
Honorees’ work may be in any area of academic museum operations (administration, collections management, community engagement, curation, development, education, equity and culture, exhibitions, human resources, leadership and management, marketing and communications, public relations, research and evaluation, registration, security, technology, etc.) or any area impacting the museum field. Multiple individuals may be recognized in a given year.
Eligibility
- Nominee is an individual and should have at least five years of experience in the academic museum field at the time of submission.
- Nominee must be active in the academic museum field through current employment, volunteer service, and/or enrollment in an academic museum program.
- Nominee developed or implemented an innovative project, program, or exhibition that addressed this year’s conference theme of “creativity” and positively impacted members of the academic community and/or the public at large. (Examples being a teaching methodology, publication, or professional development opportunity)
- Nominee demonstrates the impact of their specific project or program related to “creativity.”
- Nominee may be from or based in any country but must demonstrate contributions to US academic museum(s) and/or the US academic museum field.
- Nominee should be a member of AAMG.
Self-nominations are accepted.
