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July 2, 2026

COMMS Awards

COMMS Awards
You’re Gonna Get Yours

Recognizing Excellence in Museum Communications, Marketing, Media Relations and Audience Engagement. Showcase your work and take a bow.

COM COMMS Awards seeks to promote best practices in museum communications, marketing, media relations and audience engagement globally. Also, to recognize innovation, creativity, and strategic excellence across diverse cultural contexts.

The awards are open to museum professionals or teams worldwide, affiliated with ICOM or not. You may submit one or more projects in different categories. We accept projects created in progress since 2024 until June 2026. A jury selected by ICOM COMMS will produce a shortlist for every category and open it to public vote.

Send your project by July 31st.

We have different categories.
You can submit your projects to more than one category if you believe it applies.

1) Best Integrated Communications Strategy
2) Best Brand Identity or Rebranding Project
3) Best Audience Engagement Initiative
4) Best Storytelling Project
5) Best Press Office Campaign
6) Best Digital or Social Media Campaign
7) Best Marketing Campaign
8) Best Crisis Management
9) Best with Less10) Best of the Year will be selected by the ICOMCOMMS Board.https://museodata.typeform.com/awards

Winners and honorable mentions will be announced during the ICOM COMMS + ICOMON Annual Conference.
Scheduled for December 4, 2026
Heureka Science Center, Vantaa, Finland

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