OMA Announces 2008 Award Winners

Posted on 11/30/-0001

2008 Oklahoma Museums Association Award Winners

Laura McDonagh Streich Award for Service to the Profession:
Melissa Owens, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

Certificate of Recognition:
Senator Charles Ford
Robert Baker, Talbot Library and Museum
Dr. and Mrs. Milt Lehr, Waynoka Historical Society

Conservation or Preservation Project:
$0 - $24,999 - The Horse Palace, Peter Conser Historic Home
Tie- $25,000 - $99,999 African American Museum & One Room School Restoration Project, Loretta Y. Jackson-African American Historical Society
Tie- $25,000 - $99,999 Carnegie Library Restoration, Guthrie Museum Complex

Interpretive Exhibit:
$25,000 - $99,999 - Second Floor Gallery Renovation, Oklahoma Territorial Museum
$500,000 and over - Oklahoma Trails Exhibit, Oklahoma City Zoo & Botanical Garden

Newsletter:
$0 - $24,999 - Friends of the Murrell Home Newsletter, George M. Murrell Home/Oklahoma Historical Society

Outreach or Education Program:
$0 - $24,999 - Murrell Home Living History Education Program, George M. Murrell Home/Oklahoma Historical Society
$500,000 and over - Call to Arms:  Civil War Saturday, Oklahoma Museum of History, Oklahoma History Center

Promotional Piece:
$0 - $24,999 - Brochure, Lincoln County Museum of Pioneer History
$25,000-$99,999 - Making History with the Arts DVD, Chisholm Trail Heritage Center
$500,000 and over - Muse-A-Palooza invitation and reply card, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

Publication:
$0 - $24,999 - Inland Waterway Towboat & Barge Activity & Fun Book, Arkansas River Historical Society
$25,000 - $99,999 - Iksaachi, Chickasaw Historical Society, Chickasaw Nation
$500,000 and over - Inspired to Lead: Governors and First Families of Oklahoma, Oklahoma History Center

Website:
$100,000 - $499,999 - http://www.redearth.org/, Red Earth Museum

For more information view the Awards Section of the Web site