May 28, 2019
The Museum at FIT (MFIT) is pleased to announce that it has won two American Alliance
of Museums (AAM) Media and Technology MUSE awards. MFIT received the bronze award
in Digital Campaigns for the crowdsourced project Wearing Memories in conjunction with the exhibition Fashion Unraveled, and an honorable mention in Onsite Digital Experience for a projection mapping project
in the exhibition Fabric In Fashion.
Ten different fabrics were projected onto this toile of a 1755-1760
robe à la française in the exhibition Fabric In Fashion.
robe à la française in the exhibition Fabric In Fashion.
The Media and Technology MUSE awards were presented at AAM’s Annual Meeting & Museum
Expo held in New Orleans, Louisiana May 19-22, 2019. MUSE awards were presented to
institutions that showcased outstanding achievement and enhanced visitors experiences
in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) media. Each winning project
was selected by an international group of GLAM technology professionals.
In July 2012, MFIT achieved accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums, the
highest national recognition possible for a museum. In 2014, MFIT received a silver MUSE award for the website and social media presence for the exhibition A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk. This accreditation, in conjunction with the MUSE awards, helps establish the museum
as an elite institution committed to using its collections and exhibitions to advance
knowledge of fashion.
Watch the video for the crowdsourced project Wearing Memories below: