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The National Medal for Museum and Library Service is an award given annually by the
Institute of Museum and Library Services The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the ...
(IMLS) to American libraries and museums with outstanding service to their communities. The IMLS refers to the medal as "the nation’s highest honor conferred on museums and libraries for service to the community." The award is typically presented by the
First Lady of the United States The first lady of the United States (FLOTUS) is the title held by the hostess of the White House, usually the wife of the president of the United States, concurrent with the president's term in office. Although the first lady's role has never ...
. From 1994 to 1999, the award was known as the National Award for Museum Service and given to museums only. From 2000 to 2006, it was awarded to three museums and three libraries annually, and was known as the "National Award for Museum and Library Service". From 2007 to the present, it has borne its present name, and been awarded to five museums and five libraries. The lists of awardees for 1994–2009 are drawn from the 2009 medals booklet, published by the IMLS.


1994

* Brukner Nature Center, Troy, Ohio * The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida *
Missouri Historical Society The Missouri Historical Society was founded in St. Louis on August 11, 1866. Founding members created the historical society "for the purpose of saving from oblivion the early history of the city and state". Organization The Missouri Historica ...
, St. Louis, Missouri


1995

*
Brooklyn Children's Museum The Brooklyn Children's Museum is a children's museum in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Founded in 1899, it is the first children's museum in the United States – and according to some, the first one worldwide. It ...
, Brooklyn, New York * The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois * Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont * The Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, Washington


1996

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The Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. Overview The Corcoran School of the Arts & Desig ...
, Washington, DC *
The Field Museum The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational ...
, Chicago, Illinois * The Natural Science Center of Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina


1997

* The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana * The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas * National Aquarium in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland


1998

* Belknap Mill Society, Laconia, New Hampshire * Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan *
New Jersey Historical Society The New Jersey Historical Society is a historical society and museum located in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The Historical Society is housed in the former headquarters of the Essex Club. It has two floors of exhibition spac ...
, Newark, New Jersey


1999

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Lincoln Park Zoo Lincoln Park Zoo, also known as Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, is a zoo in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. The zoo was founded in 1868, making it the fourth oldest zoo in North America. It is also one of a few free admission zoos in the Unit ...
, Chicago, Illinois *
Nevada Museum of Art The Nevada Museum of Art, is an art museum in Reno, Nevada. Located at 160 West Liberty Street in Reno, it is the only American Alliance of Museums (AAM) accredited art museum in the state of Nevada. The museum has chosen a thematic approach, placi ...
, Reno, Nevada * St. Simons Island Lighthouse Museum, St. Simons Island, Georgia


2000

In 2000, the first year that the award was given to libraries, the following seven institutions received it: *
Albright-Knox Art Gallery The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, is an art museum at 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, in Delaware Park. the museum's Elmwood Avenue campus is temporarily closed for construction. It hosted e ...
, Buffalo, New York * Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, Alaska * B.B. Comer Memorial Library, Sylacauga, Alabama * Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, New York *
Simon Wiesenthal Center Library and Archives The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is a Jewish human rights organization established in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier. The center is known for Holocaust research and remembrance, hunting Nazi war criminals, combating anti-Semitism, tolerance educa ...
, Los Angeles, California *
Urie Elementary School Library Uinta County School District #6 is a public school district based in Lyman, Wyoming, United States. Geography Uinta County School District #6 serves northeastern Uinta County. The town of Lyman is the only incorporated place in the district. S ...
, Lyman, Wyoming *
Youth Museum of Southern West Virginia Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. You ...
, Beckley, West Virginia


2001

* Alaska Resources Library and Information Services, Anchorage, Alaska * Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, San Jose, California * Hancock County Library System, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi * Miami Museum of Science, Miami, Florida *
New England Aquarium The New England Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Boston, Massachusetts. The species exhibited include harbor and northern fur seals, California sea lions, African and southern rockhopper penguins, giant Pacific octopuses, weedy seadra ...
, Boston, Massachusetts * Providence Public Library, Providence, Rhode Island


2002

* Boundary County District Library, Bonners Ferry, Idaho * Hartford Public Library, Hartford, Connecticut * Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania *
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA) is an art museum with five locations in southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. It is headquartered at Saint Francis University in Loretto, where it was founded in 1976. Other locations were o ...
, Loretto, Pennsylvania * Southwest Georgia Regional Public Library System, Bainbridge, Georgia *
Wildlife Conservation Society The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a non-governmental organization headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that aims to conserve the world's largest wild places in 14 priority regions. Founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological ...
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Bronx Zoo The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York. It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in ...
, Bronx, New York


2003

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Bozeman Public Library The Bozeman Public Library is the public library of Bozeman, Montana. The library provides free resources for residents of Gallatin County, Montana. Description There were several small libraries serving Bozeman beginning with the Young Men's L ...
, Bozeman, Montana *
Carnegie Science Center The Carnegie Science Center is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Chateau neighborhood. It is located across the street from Heinz Field. Overview The Carnegie Science Center is the most visited mu ...
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *
Free Library of Philadelphia The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves Philadelphia. It is the 13th-largest public library system in the United States. The Free Library of Philadelphia is a non-Mayoral agency of the City of Philadelphia gover ...
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Pocahontas County Free Libraries, Marlinton, West Virginia * San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas *
USS Constitution Museum The USS Constitution Museum is located in the Charlestown Navy Yard, which is part of the Boston National Historical Park in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The museum is situated near the ship at the end of Boston's Freedom Trail. The m ...
, Boston, Massachusetts


2004

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Chicago Botanic Garden The Chicago Botanic Garden is a living plant museum situated on nine islands in the Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens in four natural habitats: McDonald Woods, Dixon Prairie, Skokie River Corridor, and Lakes and Shor ...
, Chicago, Illinois * Flint Public Library, Flint, Michigan * Mayagüez Children's Library, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico * The Regional Academic Health Center Medical Library of the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas *
Western Folklife Center The Western Folklife Center is a nonprofit cultural center in Elko, Nevada that hosts exhibits, theater, music, and poetry events that celebrate the history and landscape of the American West. Every year the center hosts the National Cowboy Poetry ...
, Elko, Nevada *
Zoological Society of San Diego San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is a not-for-profit organization headquartered in San Diego that operates the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Founded in 1916 as the Zoological Society of San Diego under the leadership of Harry ...
, San Diego, California


2005

* COSI Toledo, Toledo, Ohio * Johnson County Library, Overland Park, Kansas * Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, North Carolina * Mathews Memorial Library, Mathews, Virginia *
Pratt Museum The Pratt Museum is a regional natural history museum located in Homer, Alaska, with exhibits exploring life around Kachemak Bay in South Central Alaska. The museum's mission is to preserve "the stories of the Kachemak Bay region", through "coll ...
, Homer, Alaska *
Saint Paul Public Library The Saint Paul Public Library is a library system serving the residents of Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the United States. The library system includes a Central Library, twelve branch locations, and a bookmobile. It is a member of the Metropolitan L ...
, Saint Paul, MN


2006

* Artrain USA, Ann Arbor, Michigan * Frankfort Community Public Library, Frankfort, Indiana * John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois * Lincoln Children's Zoo, Lincoln, NE *
Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library (previously the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County) is the public library system of the city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. About Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is one ...
, Charlotte, North Carolina * San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, Texas


2007

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Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The Institute is located in the Civil Rights District, whic ...
, Birmingham, Alabama *
Brookfield Zoo Brookfield Zoo, also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois. It houses around 450 species of animals in an area of . It opened on July 1, 1934, and quickly gained international reco ...
of the Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield, Illinois * Georgetown County Library, Georgetown, South Carolina * Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library, Hoopa, California * Memphis Public Library & Information Center, Memphis, Tennessee *
National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openi ...
, Washington, DC *
The Newberry Library The Newberry Library is an independent research library, specializing in the humanities and located on Washington Square in Chicago, Illinois. It has been free and open to the public since 1887. Its collections encompass a variety of topics rela ...
, Chicago, Illinois * Ocean County Library, Toms River, New Jersey *
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI, ) is a science and technology museum in Portland, Oregon, United States. It contains three auditoriums, including a large-screen theatre, planetarium, and exhibition halls with a variety of hands- ...
, Portland, Oregon *
Vermont Historical Society The Vermont Historical Society (VHS) was founded in 1838 to preserve and record the cultural history of the US state of Vermont. Headquartered in the old Spaulding School Building in Barre, the Vermont History Center is home to the Vermont His ...
, Barre, Vermont


2008

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Buffalo Bill Historical Center The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, formerly known as the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, is a complex of five museums and a research library featuring art and artifacts of the American West located in Cody, Wyoming. The five museums include the B ...
, Cody, Wyoming *
The Franklin Institute The Franklin Institute is a science museum and the center of science education and research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is named after the American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin. It houses the Benjamin Franklin National Memori ...
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * General Lew Wallace Study and Museum, Crawfordsville, Indiana * Jane Stern Dorado Community Library, Dorado, Puerto Rico *
Kansas City Public Library The Kansas City Public Library is a public system headquartered in the Central Library in Kansas City, Missouri. The system operates its Central Library and neighborhood branches located in Kansas City, Independence, and Sugar Creek. Foun ...
, Kansas City, Missouri *
Lower East Side Tenement Museum The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, is a National Historic Site. The museum's two historical tenement buildings were home to an estimated 15, ...
, New York, New York *
Miami-Dade Public Library System The Miami-Dade Public Library System (MDPLS) is a system of libraries in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Governance The Miami-Dade Public Library System is a county department within Miami-Dade county government. The Board of County Commissione ...
, Miami, Florida *
Norton Museum of Art The Norton Museum of Art is an art museum located in West Palm Beach, Florida. Its collection includes over 8,200 works, with a concentration in European, American, and Chinese art as well as in contemporary art and photography. In 2003, it overt ...
, West Palm Beach, Florida * Skidompha Public Library, Damariscotta, Maine * Skokie Public Library, Skokie, Illinois


2009

* Braille Institute Library Services, Los Angeles, California *
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is a hands-on interactive children's museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is in the Allegheny Center neighborhood in Pittsburgh's Northside. History The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh was founded in 1983 ...
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal The Cincinnati Museum Center is a museum complex operating out of the Cincinnati Union Terminal in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. It houses museums, theater, a library, and a symphonic pipe organ, as well as special traveling ...
, Cincinnati, Ohio * Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois *
Indianapolis Museum of Art The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) is an encyclopedic art museum located at Newfields, a campus that also houses Lilly House, The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres, the Gardens at Newfields, the Beer Garden, and more. It ...
, Indianapolis, Indiana *
Multnomah County Library Multnomah County Library is the public library system serving Portland and Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. A continuation of the Library Association of Portland, established in 1864, the system now has 19 branches offering books, magazine ...
, Portland, Oregon * Museum of Science & Industry, Tampa, Florida *
Pritzker Military Museum & Library The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (formerly Pritzker Military Library) is a non-profit museum and a research library for the study of military history on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. The institution was founded in 2003, and its sp ...
, Chicago, Illinois * Stark County District Library, Canton, Ohio *
Tennessee Aquarium The Tennessee Aquarium is a non-profit public aquarium located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. It opened in 1992 on the banks of the Tennessee River in downtown Chattanooga, with a major expansion added in 2005. The aquarium, which has ...
, Chattanooga, Tennessee


2010

In 2010, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums: * Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, Fishers, Indiana *
Explora Explora can refer to: * Ici Explora, Canadian French-language television channel * Explora (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Explora is a science center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, located near Old Town Albuquerque. Its name is the impe ...
, Albuquerque, New Mexico * Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California *
Mississippi Museum of Art The Mississippi Museum of Art is a public museum in Jackson, Mississippi. It is the largest museum in Mississippi. Location It is located at the corner of 380 South Lamar Street and 201 East Pascagoula Street in Jackson, Mississippi.Lee Ellis, ''F ...
, Jackson, MS *
Nashville Public Library Nashville Public Library is the public library serving Nashville, Tennessee and the metropolitan area of Davidson County. In 2010, the Nashville Public Library was the recipient of the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The library ...
, Nashville, Tennessee * The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York * Patchogue-Medford Library, Patchogue, New York * Peter White Public Library, Marquette, Michigan * Rangeview Library District and Anythink Libraries, Adams County, Colorado * West Bloomfield Township Public Library, West Bloomfield Township, Michigan


2011

In 2011, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums: *
Alachua County Library District The Alachua County Library District is an independent special taxing district and the sole provider of public library service to approximately 250,000 citizens of Alachua County, Florida. This includes all of the incorporated municipalities in the ...
, Gainesville, Florida *
Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Cro ...
, Brooklyn, New York *
Columbus Metropolitan Library The Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) is a public library system in Franklin County, Ohio, in the Columbus metropolitan area. The library serves an area of 872,000 residents, has a collection of 1,483,433 volumes, and circulates 17,262,267 it ...
, Columbus, Ohio * EdVenture Children's Museum, Columbia, South Carolina * Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania *
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) is a nonprofit organization that photographs, catalogs, and provides free access to collections of manuscripts located in libraries around the world. HMML prioritizes manuscripts located in regions end ...
, Collegeville, Minnesota *
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is a , botanical garden in Henrico County, just outside of Richmond, Virginia. It features over a dozen themed gardens, a conservatory, library, and café. Regular daily admission is $17 for adults, $14 for seniors, $ ...
, Richmond, Virginia * Madison Children's Museum, Madison, Wisconsin *
San Jose Public Library The San José Public Library ( es, Biblioteca Pública de San José) is the public library system of San Jose, California, made up of 23 branch libraries spread across the city. Organization Its central library, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Librar ...
, San Jose, California * Weippe Public Library & Discovery Center, Weippe, Idaho


2012

In 2012, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums: * Bootheel Youth Museum, Malden, Missouri *
Contra Costa County Library The Contra Costa County Library is the public library system in Contra Costa County, California, United States. There are 26 community libraries including the NRHP-listed Martinez Library, access to electronic information via a website, over 45 ...
, Pleasant Hill, California * Cumberland County Public Library, Fayetteville, North Carolina *
Garfield Park Conservatory Garfield Park Conservatory, located in Garfield Park in Chicago, is one of the largest greenhouse conservatories in the United States. Often referred to as "landscape art under glass", the Garfield Park Conservatory occupies approximately insi ...
, Chicago, Illinois * Long Island Children's Museum, Garden City, New York * Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida * Naturita Community Library, Naturita, Colorado *
Pacific Science Center Pacific Science Center is an independent, non-profit science center in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking. Pacific Science Center serves more than 1 million people e ...
, Seattle, Washington * Park View High School Library Media Center, Sterling, Virginia *
Shaler North Hills Library The Shaler North Hills Library is the public library serving Shaler Township, Pennsylvania, the Shaler Area School District and environs. The library can be found in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, the central municipality of Shaler Township, located ...
, Glenshaw, Pennsylvania


2013

In 2013, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums, and presented by First Lady
Michelle Obama Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married t ...
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Boston Children's Museum Boston Children's Museum is a children's museum in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the education of children. Located on Children's Wharf along the Fort Point Channel, Boston Children's Museum is the second oldest children's museum in the Un ...
, Boston, Massachusetts *
Columbus Museum of Art The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (its name until 1978), it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio. The museum collect ...
, Columbus, Ohio *
Delta Blues Museum The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, is a museum dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing public access to and awareness of the musical genre known as the blues. Along with holdings of significant blues-rel ...
, Clarksdale, Mississippi *
Discovery Science Center The Discovery Cube Orange County, formerly known as the Discovery Science Center and the Taco Bell Discovery Science Center, is a science museum in Santa Ana, California, with more than 100 hands-on science exhibits designed to spark children's ...
, Santa Ana, California * Marshalltown Public Library, Marshalltown, Iowa *
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML) is a museum and library of Czech and Slovak history and culture located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the United States. Established in 1974, the museum and library moved to its present site in 198 ...
, Cedar Rapids, Iowa *
Pierce County Library System The Pierce County Library System (PCLS) is a library system serving the residents of Pierce County, Washington. The Pierce County Library System has 20 library locations serving 580,000 people in unincorporated Pierce County and 15 cities and tow ...
, Tacoma, Washington *
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library (CHPL) is a public library system in the United States. In addition to its main library location in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, CHPL operates 40 regional and branch locations throughout Hamil ...
, Cincinnati, Ohio * Rancho Cucamonga Public Library, Rancho Cucamonga, California * Waukegan Public Library, Waukegan, Illinois


2014

In 2014, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums: *
Chicago Public Library The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. It consists of 81 locations, including a central library, two regional libraries, and branches distributed throughout the ...
, Chicago, Illinois *
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1910 using land from Mount Prospect Park in central Brooklyn, adjacent to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. The garden holds ...
, Brooklyn, New York * Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, Las Vegas, Nevada *
Mid-Continent Public Library Mid-Continent Public Library, officially known as Consolidated Library District #3, is a consolidated public library system serving Clay, Platte, and Jackson Counties in Missouri, with headquarters in Independence, Missouri. Mid-Continent Public ...
, Independence, Missouri *
Mystic Aquarium Mystic Aquarium is a marine aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. It is one of only two U.S. facilities holding Steller sea lions, and it has the only beluga whales in New England. Special exhibits include a ray and shark touch pool, an African penguin ...
, Mystic, Connecticut * North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina * Octavia Fellin Public Library, Gallup, New Mexico * Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, Oklahoma * The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana *
Yiddish Book Center The Yiddish Book Center (formerly the National Yiddish Book Center), located on the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the Yiddish language, a ...
, Amherst, Massachusetts


2015

In 2015, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums: * Amazement Square, Lynchburg, Virginia *
Cecil County Public Library The Cecil County Public Library (CCPL) is a public library system in Cecil County, Maryland, located in the northeastern tip of Maryland. CCPL has circulated over a million items since FY2009, serving the community through seven branch libra ...
, Elkton, Maryland * Craig Public Library, Craig, Alaska * Embudo Valley Library and Community Center, Dixon, New Mexico *
Los Angeles Public Library The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) is a public library system in Los Angeles, California. The system holds more than six million volumes, and with around 19 million residents in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, it serves the lar ...
, Los Angeles, California * Louisiana Children’s Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana *
Museum of Northern Arizona The Museum of Northern Arizona is a museum in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, that was established as a repository for Indigenous material and natural history specimens from the Colorado Plateau. The museum was founded in 1928 by zoologist ...
, Flagstaff, Arizona *
New York Hall of Science The New York Hall of Science, also known as NYSCI, is a science museum located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens, in the section of the park that is in Corona. It occupies one of the few remaining structures fr ...
, Queens, New York * The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, New York * The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, California


2016

In 2016, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums: *
Brooklyn Public Library The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by holding and the seventh by number of visitors. Like the two othe ...
, Brooklyn, New York * The Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois *
Columbia Museum of Art The Columbia Museum of Art is an art museum in the American city of Columbia, South Carolina. History The Columbia Museum of Art was originally in the 1908 private residence of the city's Taylor family. Located on Senate Street in Columbia, adj ...
, Columbia, South Carolina * Lynn Meadows Discovery Center for Children, Gulfport, Mississippi * Madison Public Library, Madison, Wisconsin * Mid-America Science Museum, Hot Springs, Arkansas *
North Carolina State University Libraries North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The university ...
, Raleigh, North Carolina *Otis Library, Norwich, Connecticut * Santa Ana Public Library, Santa Ana, California * Tomaquag Museum, Exeter, Rhode Island


2017

In 2017, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums: * Alaska State Museums, Juneau, Alaska *
Aspen Art Museum Founded in 1979, the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Aspen, Colorado. AAM exhibitions include drawings, paintings, sculptures Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in thr ...
, Aspen, Colorado * Cedar Rapids Public Library, Cedar Rapids, Iowa * Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, Illinois *
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is located in Wausau, Wisconsin. It is best known for its annual "Birds in Art" exhibition, which exhibits contemporary artistic representations of birds. The annual exhibition has been held beginning the week a ...
, Wausau, Wisconsin * Long Beach Public Library, Long Beach, California * Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Oakland, California * Richland Library, Columbia, South Carolina *
University of Minnesota Libraries The University of Minnesota Libraries is the library system of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, operating at 13 facilities in and around Minneapolis–Saint Paul. It has over 7 million volumes and 119,000 serial titles that are coll ...
, Minneapolis, Minnesota * Waterville Public Library, Waterville, Maine


2018

In 2018, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums: * Children's Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus, Denver, Colorado *
Detroit Historical Museum The Detroit Historical Museum is located at 5401 Woodward Avenue in the city's Cultural Center Historic District in Midtown Detroit. It chronicles the history of the Detroit area from cobblestone streets, 19th century stores, the auto assembly li ...
, Detroit, Michigan *
El Paso Museum of Art Founded in 1959, The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) is located in downtown El Paso, Texas. First accredited in 1972, it is the only accredited art museum within a 250-mile radius and serves approximately 100,000 visitors per year. A new building ...
, El Paso, Texas * Georgetown Public Library, Georgetown, Texas * History Museum at the Castle,
Appleton, Wisconsin Appleton ( mez, Ahkōnemeh) is a city in Outagamie, Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. One of the Fox Cities, it is situated on the Fox River, southwest of Green Bay and north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the c ...
* Orange County Library System, Orlando, Florida * Pueblo City–County Library District, Pueblo, Colorado * Reading Public Library, Reading, Pennsylvania * Rochester Public Library, Rochester, Minnesota * University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, Oregon


2019

In 2019, the award was given to the following ten libraries and museums: * Jamestown S'Klallam Tribal Library, Sequim, Washington * Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan *
New Haven Free Public Library The New Haven Free Public Library (also known as the NHFPL) is the public library system serving New Haven, Connecticut. The system began in 1887 in a leased location but quickly outgrew its space. The Ives Memorial Library is the main branch of ...
, New Haven, Connecticut *
Gulfport Public Library The Gulfport Public Library serves the city of Gulfport, Florida, Gulfport, in Pinellas County, Florida. It is located at 5501 28th Ave South, Gulfport, Florida 33707. It is a member of the Pinellas Public Library Cooperative. The library provides ...
, Gulfport, Florida * Meridian District Library, Meridian, Idaho * Barona Cultural Center and Museum, Lakeside, California *
Children's Museum Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits and programs to stimulate informal learning experiences for children. In contrast with traditional museums that typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits, children's museums feat ...
, San Diego, California *
Historical Society of Central Florida The Historical Society of Central Florida, formerly the Orange County Historical Society, is a historical society located in Orlando, Florida, United States. Located at the Orange County Regional History Center in the old Orange County Courthou ...
, Orlando, Florida * Lorraine Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, Tennessee *
South Carolina Aquarium __NOTOC__ The South Carolina Aquarium, located in Charleston, South Carolina, opened on May 19, 2000, on the historic Charleston Harbor in the former location of the Anson Borough Homes, a public housing project that was closed over soil contami ...
, Charleston, South Carolina


2020

No awards were made in 2020.


2021

In 2021, the award was given to the following six libraries and museums: * Cabell County Public Library, Huntington, West Virginia * Highwood Public Library, Highwood, Illinois * Memphis Public Libraries, Memphis, Tennessee *
High Desert Museum The High Desert Museum is located near Bend, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1982, it brings regional wildlife, culture, art and natural resources together to promote an understanding of natural and cultural heritage of North America's high d ...
, Bend, Oregon * Mississippi Children's Museum, Jackson, Mississippi * Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico


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