With this last portion of interviews, we come to the end of 2020 video series. It was quite a journey over the last 3 months that took us all over the planet, in which we met many hard-working colleagues and learned about their accomplishments. We go out with a bang, featuring in this chapter an exhibition on one of the world’s most significant engineers, an ethnographical Oasis in Romania, architectural education project designed for children, an exhibition celebrating the history of iron and steelmaking, and a tribute exhibition to the late Leonard Cohen. From IMAGINES we feature a photography project virtually reconstructing the old baroque city centre of Narva.

Our two juries will now convene to bring you what they consider “Project of Influence”, for the two segments of the programme. We are after excellence in professional performance in community commitment. Our role is to capitalize on the work of many professional juries by giving further exposure to prize-winning projects, choosing especially those likely to exercise influence and inspiration, - the change makers of the heritage sector. Both, the Best in Heritage project and the vote are about quality that wins attention and impresses, not about  competition.

Stay tuned to learn which two laureates will bear the title Best in Heritage "Project of Influence" 2020. Our conference exhibition will be ready by then and available freely to all interested parties.

Our Inkyung Chang talks to the Director of the Brunel Institute at SS Great Britain Trust, Tim Bryan about the Being Brunel project that won the Museums + Heritage Permanent Exhibition of the Year Award in 2019.

Ciprian Stefan presents the Astra National Museum Complex in an interview with TBIH2020 Jury member Inkyung Chang. The museum received the European Museum Academy's Micheletti Award in 2019.

Interview with Triin Ojari from the Museum of Estonian Architecture and Kadri Klementi from  Arhitektuurikool Architecture School about the Explore Space! project, winner of the Estonian Museum Award for Permanent Exhibition 2019.

Our Sara Devine talks to Gunnar Liestøl, Professor at the Department of Media & Communication at the University of Oslo about the project that won the GLAMi Award in 2019 in the Education and Collection Extension/Non-website category.

Corey Timpson interviews Leo Croft about the Steel Stories project, for which the Kirkleatham Museum won the Museums Association's Museums Change Lives Award 2019 as the Best Small Museum. 

Talk with John Zeppetelli from the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal about the project that won the Canadian Museums Association's Award for Art Exhibition with budget of over $1M in 2019. Interview by Inkyung Chang.