02 July 2021
Tri-service partnership highly commended at prestigious Museums and Heritage Awards
The CWGC, alongside the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the National Army Museum and the RAF Museum were highly commended in the Partnership of the Year category at last night’s Museum and Heritage Awards.
The recognition follows a series of digital events to celebrate VE Day and VJ Day 2020 after Covid-19 ruled out more traditional celebrations.
The Virtual VE Day festival programme was designed to appeal to a broad audience, from families to experts. Highlights from the festival programme included a Tri-Service Debate with a live Q&A, live swing dancing sessions, stories from the archive, sing-along concerts and live discussions with authors.
Following the great success of the VE Day celebrations, CWGC joined with the Tri-Service Museum partnership to create another selection of curators talks, blogs, archive footage, podcasts and debates, accessible online around the world, to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day.
Liz Woodfield, CWGC’s Director of Information and Communications, said: “Delivering such an engaging and fitting commemorative programme for VE and VJ Day during the height of the pandemic is not only a great credit to the teams at all four partner organisations but an example of how beneficial such partnerships can be and how appealing to our audiences. To be shortlisted for such a prestigious industry award therefore was hugely rewarding but to be highly commended is incredible. Congratulations to the teams at CWGC and all our partners and we look forward to many more joint projects.”
Following the successes of last year, this partnership is continuing with a virtual walk for Armed Forces Week where entrants will receive a one-of-a-kind medal and help to raise money for each of the service museums as well at the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation.
