AIC/Heritage Preservation
Ross Merrill Award
for Outstanding Commitment to the
Preservation and Care of Collections
The award was presented annually to an organization in North America that has been exemplary in the importance and priority it has given to conservation concerns and in the commitment it has shown to the preservation and care of its cultural property.
With the dissolution of Heritage Preservation, the award became the Ross Merrill Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections and was administered solely by the American Institute for Conservation.
2016: Harvard University
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2017: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
2019: The Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden
1999: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
2000: Fairmount Park Art Association; the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Bata Shoe Museum
2001: The Central Park Conservancy, Judson Memorial Church, the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, the Sculpture Center
2002: City of Buffalo Arts Commission, New York Academy of Medicine, Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance
2003: LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden; Winterthur, An American Country Estate; Canadian Museum of Nature
2004: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, The Henry Ford, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
2006: Historical Society of Frederick County, Maryland
2007: Cleveland Public Library
2008: Arizona State Museum, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
2009: Historic Cherry Hill, Shelburne Museum
2010: The Architect of the Capitol, Friends of the Iolani Palace
2011: Maymont Foundation
2012: Alaska State Museum, Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame
2013: The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum & Indianapolis Museum of Art
2014: Tudor Place Historic House & Garden