2023 Awards | Shortlist Announced
AMaGA Victoria and PGAV are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for the 2023 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards! We extend our warmest congratulations to the dedicated organisations and collaborators who brought these projects to life. Your creativity and hard work have truly shone through this year — here’s to celebrating your remarkable achievements!
Volunteer-run Project of the Year
Queenscliffe Historical Society | Queenscliffe Revealed: Hidden Histories, New Narratives
Trentham & District Historical Society | The Trentham District Story
Whitehorse Historical Society | From Then Until Now: Exploring the Stories of the Whitehorse Area
Women's Art Register | Leaving Your Legacy: A Guide for Australian Artists
Small Project of the Year (Museum)
Grimwade Conservation Services | Conservation of Objects of Significance for the Melbourne Holocaust Museum
National Wool Museum | Your Museum, Geelong's Museum
Shrine of Remembrance | Defending with Pride
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum | Hard Place/Good Place: Yarra Ranges
Small Project of the Year (Gallery)
Bayside Gallery | Tai Snaith: Hierarchy of Needs
Hamilton Gallery | Luminous: John Orval, Stained Glass Artist
RMIT Culture | Radical Utopia: The Design Archaeology of a Creative City
The Dax Centre | Adopted
Medium Project of the Year (Museum)
Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute x Grimwade Conservation Services | Heritage Collection Conservation
Bonegilla Migrant Experience | The Bonegilla ID Cards
Museums Victoria | More Than a Tarrang (tree): Memory, Material, Cultural Agency
State Library Victoria | The Rest Is Up To You: Melbourne Fringe Festival 1982-2062
Medium Project of the Year (Gallery)
Art Gallery of Ballart | Beating About the Bush: A new lens on Australian Impressionism
Bendigo Art Gallery | Australiana: Designing a Nation
TarraWarra Museum of Art | TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi fa'ava'asavili
The University of Melbourne | Peter Tyndall at Buxton Contemporary Art Museum
Large Project of the Year
Arts Centre Melbourne | APAC Reveal
Central Goldfields Art Gallery | Gallery Redevelopment Project
City of Melbourne | Relocation & Accessibility: Melbourne's collection returns to its spiritual home
Museums Victoria | Tyama: A deeper sense of knowing
First Nations Project of the Year
ACMI | How I See It: Blak Art and Film
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre | Truth-telling Permanent History Display
Burrinja Cultural Centre | Bim Kunwarddewardde: Stone Country Painting
Daylesford & District Historical Society x Djaara Elder Uncle Rick Nelson | Coranderrk Portraits
Koorie Heritage Trust | Blak Design
Krowathunkooloong Keeping Place | Repatriation of Gunai Kurnai GRI (canoe)
National Wool Museum | Wadawurrung Dja: Awakening Country
Wangaratta Art Gallery | Bitja Wokka: Fire Country
