The Anna Plowden Trust Award for Research and Innovation will once again be given as part of the Icon Conservation Awards 2015.

The Trustees are delighted to announce that the following projects have been shortlisted.  Final judging will take place during the summer and the winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on 22nd October.

The shortlisted projects for The Anna Plowden Trust Award are:

The Magna Carta Project  The British Library

IWM and the War Against Dust: Space vacuums, air bazookas and duster drones  Imperial War Museum

The Rothko Conservation Project  Tate 

Congratulations to all of the teams whose projects have been shortlisted and many thanks to all the other applicants for submitting excellent projects.