Conference & Awards

Scroll down for Awards information! DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 14th OCTOBER

 

Archaeology Lifelines 

SMA Annual Conference

 Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales on 7th-8th of November 2024

Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP

and livestreamed

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AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2024

SMA annual Awards for Excellence 2024

We are delighted to announce the nominations for the Society’s Annual Awards for Excellence will open on Monday 19th August 2024.

The SMA awards are not about recognising the biggest, most shiny, or most expensive.  The awards celebrate excellent practice, clear impact and people development at whatever level across the full spectrum of our museum world. It’s easy to apply with winners presented with their awards at the SMA conference in Cardiff on 8th November.

Information for making an entry can be found by downloading this document: INFORMATION FOR ENTRIES

Here’s a quick overview:

Categories

  1. Exhibition, Display or Interpretation project
  2. Collections based project
  3. Engagement and/or collaboration project
  4. Volunteering award

All projects should have been completed, within the UK, during the calendar year to 31st July 2024.  Entries can be for physical and digital projects.

Deadlines

CLOSING DATE for entry is midnight on 14th OCTOBER 2024.   Winners will be notified before the conference and presented at the SMA conference on Friday 8th November.

Good luck!

We are delighted to announce the nominations for the Society’s Annual Awards for Excellence will open on Monday 19th August 2024.

The SMA awards are not about recognising the biggest, most shiny, or most expensive.  The awards celebrate excellent practice, clear impact and people development at whatever level across the full spectrum of our museum world. It’s easy to apply with winners presented with their awards at the SMA conference in Cardiff on 8th November.

Information for making an entry can be found by downloading this document, but here’s a quick overview:

Categories

  1. Exhibition, Display or Interpretation project
  2. Collections based project
  3. Engagement and/or collaboration project
  4. Volunteering award

All projects should have been completed, within the UK, during the calendar year to 31st July 2024.  Entries can be for physical and digital projects.

Deadlines

CLOSING DATE for entry is midnight on 29th September 2024.  Winners will be notified on Friday 11th October and awards will be presented at the SMA conference on Friday 8th November.

Good luck!

 

 

 

Watch our Conference  2019 videos online!

Keynote:The Telling of Human Stories 

Archaeology for the People

Norwich Castle

Liverpool: Re-thinking Slums

Lost Landscapes

BC or not BC?

Presenting Prehistory

Beyond the Bling

Treasure

Graffiti

Waiting in the Wings (digital archaeological archives)

Driving Community Engagement and Research: a vision for Watling Street

Numismatics, Norman England and other Tricky Issues

Is Disposal a participatory practice?

Experiencing the gods: Displaying and interpreting Romano-British religion in museums

How can I put this? Interpreting the Evil Eye for a modern audience

 Watch our Conference 2018 videos online!

FULL PLAYLIST CLICK HERE

And the individual videos are:

Heritage Apprenticeships 

Bristol’s Brilliant Archaeology: planning for all ‘event’ …ualities 

Your Dig: York Archaeological Trust’s new Participatory Community Engagement Programme

Visitor perceptions of, and engagement with, British prehistory displays 

Positive Action with a 3D Printer

Documentation and Curation of 3D Visualization Projects 

Displaying the Dead: results of the Leeds Museum visitor survey 

A new approach to rationalising archaeological shell 

Charging Ahead: Exploring fees for the transfer of archaeological archives in museums in England 

I like to move it, move it……into archive suitable boxes

Pottery Shop? What Pottery Shop? Re – thinking Corbridge from the base up

Improving Archaeological Reference Collections and Typologies 

Digging Deeper into Treasure 

Archaeology matters: pass it on! 

Forging a positive collaboration between Swindon Museum & Art Gallery & Cardiff University 

Old Collections, New Questions: Researching the Roman collections of the Yorkshire Museum

Birmingham: rediscovering archaeology for a superdiverse city 

Putting Cyprus on the Map: promoting the Cypriot archaeology collections at Museums Sheffield

Papyrus for the People at the Petrie Museum 

 

 

To promote the interests of archaeology in museums throughout the United Kingdom