Tudor Place Winner of MAAM Impact Award

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The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Announces its 2024 Award Recipients

The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) announced the 2024 Award recipients today.  MAAM acknowledges that museums are made up of strong and active teams that work together to achieve lasting impact in their communities. To that end, the Making an Impact Award honors museums and institutions as a whole for developing either a program, exhibition, or special project that displays responsiveness and resourcefulness and have resulted in creative change for their organizations and a positive impact on their communities. MAAM is pleased to recognize three such institutions at this year’s annual meeting.

The third recipient of the Making an Impact Award is Tudor Place Historic House & Garden for its guided tour program: Ancestral Spaces: People of African Descent in Tudor Place. The tour brings into focus the lives of enslaved people and laborers, who are so often misrepresented in historical narratives or omitted altogether. The program has successfully expanded and diversified the Museum’s visitor community, bringing in people eager to experience the history being explored and to participate in dialogue around race and social justice.

Curator Rob DeHart and Development Manager Jessica Zaluzec will accept the award at the ceremony in Philadelphia on October 9, 2024.

MAAM is pleased to celebrate all of its award recipients.

 

About the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums

The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1947 to represent museum professionals, organizations, institutions, museum service providers, and industry partners in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. MAAM provides a forum to enhance the image of museums and educate individuals on an array of field-specific study and programs.  MAAM brings together the resources and leaders of the Mid-Atlantic’s museum community through conferences, symposia, and workshops to spark dialogue among industry professionals. While it always  focuses on building sustainable and inclusive museums for their communities, MAAM’s programming evolves with the needs of the field. The Annual Meeting is a member-driven forum to allow for opportunities to network and share ideas. MAAM’s Building Museums™ Symposium is unique among museum conferences in offering programming tailored for those who plan or implement new construction, renovation, or expansion projects for museums.