TREX Traveling Exhibition Awards

The TREX Traveling Exhibition Awards celebrate achievements, exemplary design, and innovation in the field of museum traveling exhibitions and recognize our talented colleagues in this unique field for their knowledge, skill, and hard work. Anyone can nominate their own work of those they admire and winners are determined through votes from traveling exhibition peers. The awards are announced each year during the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting.

TREX TRAVELING EXHIBITION AWARD WINNERS 2025

I AM WILD: A Charley Harper Exhibit (Children's Museum of Pittsburgh) - Most Innovative Interactive Experience

Uniquely Us (The DoSeum) - Best Topic Interpretation

COSI - Best Host Museum Crew

In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture - Best New Traveling Exhibition

Daniel Guyton (OMSI) - Traveling Exhibit Industry Champion

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TREX TRAVELING EXHIBITION AWARD WINNERS 2024

Dream Tomorrow Today (The DoSeum) - Most Innovative Experience

Ontario Science Center - Best Host Museum

007 Inventing the World of James Bond (Griffin Museum of Science & Industry) - Best Wow Moment

Emmet Till & Mamie Till Mobley: Let the World See (The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis) - Best Interpretation of a Topic

Heather Farnworth (Ontario Science Center) - Traveling Exhibit Industry Champion

Beyond the Beat: Music of Resistance and Change (Canadian Museum of Human Rights) - Best New Traveling Exhibition

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TREX TRAVELING EXHIBITION AWARD WINNERS 2023

Emotions at Play with Pixar’s Inside Out (Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh) - Most Innovative Experience

Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall (National Geographic Museum) - Best Wow Moment

Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery (Field Museum) - Best Interpretation of a Topic

Montreal Science Centre for Hockey: Faster than Ever - Best Local Exhibit Enhancement

Denver Museum of Nature & Science - Best Host Museum

Creatividad Silvestre | Wild Creativity (OMSI) - Best New Traveling Exhibition

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