Awards
Award Winners since 1991
Celebrating decades of excellence, the Golden Dragon Museum has been recognised with prestigious awards for its dedication to heritage, culture, and community since 1991.
2024
Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards
Highly Commended: Medium Project of the Year (Museums)
Collection Redevelopment Project
2023
Bendigo Business Excellence Awards
Finalist Events and Tourism Category
Tripadvisor
Traveler’s Choice
Tripexpert
Experts’ Choice Award
2022
Tripadvisor
Traveler’s Choice
Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards
The Archival Survival Award: Small Organisations
2021
Tripadvisor
Traveler’s Choice
2018
Victorian Community History Awards
Commendation Centenary of WW1
2016
Victorian Community History Awards
Commendation Cultural Diversity Award
2009
Victorian Community History Awards
Best Audio-Visual / Multimedia
2007
Bendigo Business Excellence Awards
Finalist Tourism and Hospitality category
Regional Achievement & Community Awards
Certificate of Achievement Events and Tourism Award
2003
National Volunteer Awards
Shortlisted
Tabaret Goldfields Tourism Awards
Certificate of Merit Heritage and Cultural Tourism
2002
Victorian Multicultural Affairs Awards
Meritorious service
2001
Goldfields Tourism Awards
Gold Award
Goldfields Tourism Awards
Arts, Heritage and Cultural Tourism Award
Victorian Community History Awards
Best Exhibit / Display
1999
Museums Australia (Victoria)
Museum Industry Recognition Award – Best Project
1998
Bendigo Business Excellence Awards
Finalist
Goldfields Tourism Awards
Certificate of Merit Heritage and Cultural Tourism Category
Victorian Community History Awards
Best Exhibit / Display
Victorian Rural Proud City & Tidiest Town Awards
Commendation Tourism Attraction category
1997
NRMA Insurance Bendigo Business Excellence Awards
Finalist Food, Hospitality, Tourism Category
1995
NRMA Insurance Bendigo Business Excellence Awards
Finalist Tourism Category
Victorian Tourism Awards
Winner Cultural Tourism Category
1992
Australian Tourism Award
Award of Distinction Cultural Tourism category
Courvoisier Award for Excellence
Community, Charity or Welfare Category
Victorian Tourism Awards
Winner Cultural Tourism Category