Sunday, August 7, 2011

The Winners Have Been Announced!

Virginia's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts are here! Review the list of winners, with press contacts and images.
Congratulations to all the winners and to all the nominees who made this inaugural year a stunning success!



Review pictures and descriptions of the beautiful nominations in the above slideshow.
Want to see the final results of online voting? Click on the chart below to see how many votes your favorite artifact received.


The following organizations nominated objects to the 2011 Virginia's Top Ten Endangered Artifacts program:
Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum
Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Catholic Historical Society of the Roanoke Valley
Fairfax Station Railroad Museum
Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont
Hermitage Museum and Gardens
Historic Dumfries, Inc. (Weems-Botts Museum)
Historic Richmond Foundation
James Branch Cabell Library (VCU)
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at UVA
Library of Virginia
Lynchburg Museum System
The Mariners' Museum
Matthews Living History Farm Museum
Military Aviation Museum
National D-Day Memorial Foundation
Nauticus
Norfolk Botanical Garden
Norfolk Historical Society
Preservation Virginia
Tompkins-McCaw Library (MCV/VCU)
Virginia Museum of Transportation
Virginia National Guard Historical Society
Warren Rifles Confederate Memorial Museum