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GREAT
MUSEUMS®
Television Wins Major Documentary Award
Atlanta, April 13, 2007 -- GREAT MUSEUMS¨
TELEVISION has been honored with a total of seven (7)
awards for documentary excellence for its 2006 ÒYear of
the MuseumÓ specials.
The GREAT MUSEUMS episode; The
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): Art In Our Time, has
won a CINE Golden Eagle Award in the International documentary
competition. This one-hour, High Definition special, features
New York City's beloved MoMA, founded in 1929 by Mrs. John
D. Rockefeller, Miss Lillie Bliss and Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan.
MoMA is the foremost museum of modern art in the world,
and the GREAT MUSEUMS episode featuring MoMA has also won
three other television documentary awards: two Telly Awards
and a Platinum Aurora Award (best in show!).
This is the seventh CINE Golden Eagle
and the 36th television award for the ongoing documentary
series GREAT MUSEUMS, the only national TV series devoted
to America's museum world. GREAT MUSEUMS is now in its fifth
year on public television and is seen on over 200 public
television stations representing 85% of U.S. households.
The premise of GREAT MUSEUMS is that America's museums are
the repository of the American experience. The series features
great museums throughout the country, large and small, and
reveals, in an informative and entertaining way, the people,
places and stories that are at the core of the American
identity.
With over 1,000 entries worldwide,
the CINE Awards are recognized as symbols of the highest
production standards in filmmaking. Recent U.S. Golden Eagle
Award winners in documentary categories include Ken Burns,
Charles Guggenheim, HBO, NBC News, A&E, The History Channel
and Discovery.
The GREAT MUSEUMS episode titled
Riches, Rivals & Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America,
has been awarded a Platinum Aurora Award as Òbest in showÓ
in the documentary category in which it competed. Narrated
by Susan Stamberg, the program documents the history of
museums in America, and was produced in association with
the American Association of Museums as a centerpiece of
its ÒAmerica's Year of the MuseumÓ centennial celebration.
It is the AAM's only collaboration on a documentary project
in its history.
The GREAT MUSEUMS episode titled, The
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: Home Base,
has been awarded both a Telly Award and an Aurora Award
for documentary excellence. This episode, co-funded by the
Yawkey Foundation, tells the social history of 20th Century
America through the history of our country's national pastime.
Tommy Lasorda, Bob Costas and Joe Morgan all contributed
expert interviews to this production.
ÒIn these challenging times, we are
more convinced than ever that America's museums are national
treasures and we are pleased to support the AAM and our
museum world by bringing the inspiring stories that our
museums tell to millions of citizens through public television
and the new digital media platforms,Ó says Mike McCarthy,
Chairman & CEO of the New York-based Eureka Foundation,
which underwrites the GREAT MUSEUMS series.
Early in 2008 -- GREAT MUSEUMS
will premier two original, high-definition, specials designed
for prime-time on public television stations.
- GREAT MUSEUMS' - The Great Museums
of Havana This special is the first GREAT MUSEUMS
episode shot outside the U.S. It tells the surprising
and dramatic story of Cuba's efforts to preserve and protect
their 500-year-old cultural history. From Hemingway's
Finca Vigia to the Cuban collection in the Museum of Fine
Arts, this exclusive presentation reveals a stunning and
little-known part of the Cuban story.
- GREAT MUSEUMS' - The
Smithsonian National Zoo The National Zoo's pandas
are famous throughout the world. But, the pandas and other
animals on exhibit at the nation's zoo are just part of
the story. Behind the scenes, the National Zoo uses the
tools of high technology to work with other nations to
preserve and protect the amazingly diverse endangered
species of the Earth. It's the story of serious science,
practiced in the trenches, and the delight that we all
experience in the presence of wild animals.
The GREAT MUSEUMS' web site
at www.greatmuseums.org
offers information and links on the museums featured on
the series, as well as links to the American ÒMuseum World,Ó
organized by state. The site includes virtual museum tours
to online exhibits produced by museums and historical societies
throughout the country. It also provides online tools for
community outreach and for teachers.
GREAT MUSEUMS is underwritten
by the Eureka Foundation, which is dedicated to the educational
power of television and new media. The series is produced
by Marc Doyle and Chesney Blankenstein Doyle, the principals
of Atlanta-based Great Museums TV/Echo Pictures Inc., and
distributed by American Public Television of Boston.
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