The Gallery of Lost Art website, a Tate and Channel 4 project designed and produced by ISO – the Glasgow design studio behind Central Station – has won the prize for Innovation at this year’s Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence. The award was presented by the broadcaster and comedian Sue Perkins during a ceremony at the Museums + Heritage Show, Olympia, London.
Launched in July 2012, The Gallery of Lost Art explores the stories behind artworks that have been lost because they’ve been stolen, destroyed, mislaid, rejected – or just weren’t made to last in the first place.
The site was shortlisted alongside The Natural History Museum, North York Moors National Park Authority, Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service and University of Birmingham, and Manchester Museum.
This isn’t the first award won by The Gallery of Lost Art website which, true to its subject matter, will cease to exist after one-year online. In March, it won the Interactive Art Award at South By Southwest (SXSW), the world’s largest interactive media festival.
The Gallery of Lost Art will cease to exist in July 2013. Until then it can be viewed online at galleryoflostart.com
