The Columbus Museum Receives Southeastern Museum Conference Exhibition Award
Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
The Columbus Museum is pleased to announce they are a recipient of the 2021 Southeastern Museums Conference Gold Award in the Under $10,000 category for the exhibition And So She Did: Women of the Chattahoochee Valley. The SEMC Exhibition Competition showcases the best in our profession and provides benchmarks for regional exhibition efforts in southeastern museums
“As the Museum’s first exhibition focused on local women’s history, And So She Did: Women of the
Chattahoochee Valley is one of my favorite projects during my time at the Museum,” says Columbus
Museum Curator of History and Exhibitions Manager Rebecca Bush. “It offered opportunities to tell both
well-known and little-heard stories from a diverse group of women spanning nearly 200 years, using their
own personal artifacts and words. Though COVID made the run of this exhibition very different than
expected, I am grateful to the many community partners who helped us develop engaging virtual
programming, including Georgia Humanities, Historic Columbus, the League of Women Voters of the
Chattahoochee Valley, and Columbus State University.”
For many visitors, exhibitions are the public face of museums and effective planning, management of resources, research and interpretation, collections care, public programs, publications, and fund raising all contribute to the fulfillment of a museum's mission. Expectations and standards were exceptionally high for this year’s applicants. The SEMC Exhibition Competition received a record-breaking number of applications from a wide variety of museums across the southeast.
. Winning entries were well-designed
Recipients of the awards were judged
by an appointed jury of museum professionals across the region who specialize in the curatorial studies and exhibition design.
Award winners will be celebrated at the 2021 Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on October 27, 2021 in Chattanooga, Tennessee as well as in the Fall 2021 Edition of INSIDE SEMC, a digital publication of the Southeastern Museums Conference. This designation recognizes The Columbus Museum’s contribution to professional standards in Southeastern museums.
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The Exhibition Competition recognizes exhibitions for overall excellence or for stretching the limits of
