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European Museum of the Year Award

This article is about a Europe-wide award. For the annual UK-specific award, see Museum of the Year.

The European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) is presented each year by the European Museum Forum (EMF) under the auspices of the Council of Europe.[2] The EMYA is considered the most important annual award in the European museum sector.[3][4]

European Museum of the Year Award
Awarded forUnique atmosphere, imaginative interpretation and presentation, a creative approach to education and social responsibility.[1]
Sponsored by
DateApril–May
LocationVarious European cities
First awarded1977 (1977)
Last awarded2021 (2021)
Websiteeuropeanforum.museum
2017 Map of European Museum of the Year Award-winning museum locations

History edit

The EMYA was founded in 1977 by British journalist Kenneth Hudson, British academic Richard Hoggart, and John Letts, under the auspices of the Council of Europe.[5] It is considered to be the most important award in its sector,[3][6] being described by the Network of European Museums (NEMO) as "the longest-running and most prestigious museum awards in Europe".[4]

The Fonds de dotation de l’ICOM of the International Council of Museums supports the European Museum of the Year Award.[7]

Awards edit

Categories edit

Since 1977, the EMF has presented two main awards:

  • European Museum of the Year
  • Council of Europe Museum Prize

Three additional prizes were subsequently added to the EMF awards:

  • In 2010, the Kenneth Hudson Award for daring achievement.[8]
  • In 2011, the Silletto Prize for community/cultural engagement.[9]
  • In 2019, the Portimão Museum Prize for the most welcoming museum.[10]
  • In 2020, the Meyvaert Museum Prize for Sustainability for "exceptional commitment to social, economic and environmental sustainability".[11]

Criteria edit

The EMF state that the European Museum of the Year is based on:

This award goes to a museum which contributes most directly to attracting audiences and satisfying its visitors with unique atmosphere, imaginative interpretation and presentation, a creative approach to education and social responsibility.

— European Museum Forum, (2019).[1]

The EMF state that the Council of Europe Museum Prize is based on:

This prestigious prize is awarded on the recommendations of the EMYA Judging Panel, by the Committee on Culture, Science and Education of the Council of Europe to a museum which puts particular emphasis on a clearly understandable presentation of a European perspective and of the interplay between local and European identities, working with themes of European relevance and adhering to key values and priorities of democracy, human rights, tolerance and intercultural dialogue, of bridging cultures and overcoming social and political borders.

— European Museum Forum, (2019).[12]

Judging edit

Museums in 47 European countries, all members of the Council of Europe, can take part in the competition if they are newly opened or have undergone modernization or expansion in the past three years.[13]

European Museum of the Year winners (1977–) edit

The following are the winners of the main European Museum of the Year award:

Year Image Museum Location Country
1977   Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Ironbridge   United Kingdom
1978   Schloss Rheydt Museum Mönchengladbach   West Germany
1979   Museum of the Camargue [fr] Arles   France
1980   Catharine Convent Museum Utrecht   Netherlands
1981 Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation Nafplio   Greece
1982   Museum of Art and History Saint-Denis   France
1983   Museum Sarganserland Sargans    Switzerland
1984   Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen   Netherlands
1986   Museum of Medieval Stockholm Stockholm   Sweden
1987   Beamish Museum Stanley   United Kingdom
1988   Brandts Museum Odense   Denmark
1989   Sundsvall Museum Sundsvall   Sweden
1990   Fourmies-Trélon Regional Ecomuseum [tr] Fourmies   France
1991   Leventio Museum Nicosia   Cyprus
1992   State Museum of Technology and Work Mannheim   Germany
1993   Alta Museum Alta   Norway
1994   National Museum of Denmark Copenhagen   Denmark
1995   Olympic Museum Lausanne    Switzerland
1996   Museum of the Romanian Peasant Bucharest   Romania
1997   Museum of Anatolian Civilizations Ankara   Turkey
1998   National Conservation Centre Liverpool   United Kingdom
1999   French Museum of Playing Cards Issy-les-Moulineaux   France
2000   Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Bilbao   Spain
2001   National Railway Museum[14] York   United Kingdom
2002   Chester Beatty Library[15] Dublin   Ireland
2003   Victoria and Albert Museum - British Galleries[16] London   United Kingdom
2004   Archaeological Museum of Alicante Alicante   Spain
2005   Netherlands Open Air Museum Arnhem   Netherlands
2006   CosmoCaixa Barcelona   Spain
2007   German Emigration Center Bremerhaven   Germany
2008   Kumu Art Museum Tallinn   Estonia
2009   Salzburg Museum Salzburg   Austria
2010   Ozeaneum[17] Stralsund   Germany
2011   Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren[18] Tongeren   Belgium
2012   Medina Azahara Museum Córdoba   Spain
2013   Riverside Museum Glasgow   United Kingdom
2014   The Museum of Innocence Istanbul   Turkey
2015   Rijksmuseum Amsterdam   Netherlands
2016   POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Warsaw   Poland
2017   Musée d'ethnographie de Genève Geneva    Switzerland
2018   Design Museum[19] London   United Kingdom
2019   Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Leiden   Netherlands
2020   Stapferhaus Lenzburg    Switzerland
2021   Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden   Netherlands
2022   Museum of the Mind Haarlem   Netherlands
2023   L'Etno Valencian Museum of Ethnology Valencia   Spain

Council of Europe Museum Prize winners (1977–) edit

The following are the winners of the Council of Europe Museum Prize award:[20]

Year Image Museum Location Country
1977   Fundació Joan Miró Barcelona   Spain
1978   Bryggens Museum Bergen   Norway
1979 Municipal Museum Rüsselsheim [de] Rüsselsheim am Main   Germany
1980   Monaghan County Museum Monaghan   Ireland
1981   Stockholm Music Museum Stockholm   Sweden
1982   Åland Museum Mariehamn   Finland
1983   Joanneum - The Provincial Museum of Styria Graz   Austria
1984   Living Museum of the Canal du Centre Thieu   Belgium
1984   National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port   United Kingdom
1987   Museum Neukölln Berlin   Germany
1988   Bavarian National Museum Munich   Germany
1988   Convent of Las Descalzas Reales Museum Madrid   Spain
1989   Joods Historisch Museum Amsterdam   Netherlands
1990 Manuel da Maia Museum of Water Lisbon   Portugal
1991   German Salt Museum Lüneburg   Germany
1992   Argenta Marsh Museum Argenta, Emilia–Romagna   Italy
1993   İstanbul Archaeology Museums Istanbul   Turkey
1994   Provincial Museum of Lapland Rovaniemi   Finland
1995 Haus der Geschichte Bonn   Germany
1996   Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna Vienna   Austria
1997   Tropenmuseum Junior Amsterdam   Netherlands
1998 Museum Centre on Strelka Krasnoyarsk   Russia
1999   Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille Lille   France
2000   In Flanders Fields Museum Ypres   Belgium
2001   Helsinki Theatre Museum [fi] Helsinki   Finland
2002   Buddenbrookhaus Lübeck   Germany
2003   Laténium Hauterive, Neuchâtel    Switzerland
2004   Museum of Health Care Edirne   Turkey
2005   Museum of Byzantine Culture Thessaloniki   Greece
2006   Churchill War Rooms London   United Kingdom
2007   International Museum of the Reformation Geneva    Switzerland
2008   Svalbard Museum Longyearbyen   Norway
2009   Zeeuws Museum Middelburg   Netherlands
2010   Portimão Museum Portimão   Portugal
2012   Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne   Germany
2013   Museum of Liverpool Liverpool   United Kingdom
2014   Baksı Museum Bayburt   Turkey
2015   Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations Marseille   France
2016   European Solidarity Centre Gdańsk   Poland
2017   ACTe Memorial Pointe-à-Pitre   France
2018   War Childhood Museum Sarajevo   Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019   Museum für Kommunikation Bern [de] Bern    Switzerland
2020   Museum of Secret Surveillance Tirana   Albania
2021   Gulag History Museum [ru] Moscow   Russia
2022 Nano Nagle Place Cork   Ireland
2023   The Workers Museum Copenhagen   Denmark

Kenneth Hudson Award winners (2010–) edit

The following are the winners of the Kenneth Hudson Award:[8]

Year Image Museum Location Country
2010 Museum of Contraception and Abortion Vienna   Austria
2011   Museum of Broken Relationships Zagreb   Croatia
2012   Glasnevin Museum Dublin   Ireland
2013 Batalha Municipal Community Museum Batalha   Portugal
2014   Žanis Lipke Memorial Riga   Latvia
2015   International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum Geneva    Switzerland
2016   Micropia Amsterdam   Netherlands
2017   Museum of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin Yekaterinburg   Russia
2018   Estonian National Museum Tartu   Estonia
2019   World Museum Vienna Vienna   Austria
2020   House of Austrian History [de] Vienna   Austria
2021   CosmoCaixa Barcelona Barcelona   Spain
2022 Wayne Modest, Nanette Snoep, Laura van Broekhoven & Leontine Meijer-van Mensch n/a n/a
2023 23,5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory, Türkiye Istanbul   Turkey

Silletto Prize winners (2011–) edit

The following are the winners of the Silletto Prize:[9]

Year Image Museum Location Country
2011   Watersnoodmuseum Ouwerkerk   Netherlands
2012   TOPIC International Puppets Center [es] Tolosa   Spain
2013   Museum aan de Stroom Antwerp   Belgium
2014   Saurer Museum Arbon    Switzerland
2015   Familistère de Guise [fr] Guise   France
2016   Vukovar City Museum Vukovar   Croatia
2017   Leiria Museum Leiria   Portugal
2018   Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding [hr] Betina   Croatia
2019   Shipwreck Museum St. George [da] Thorsminde [da]   Denmark
2020   14 Henrietta Street Dublin   Ireland
2021 Kenan Yavuz Ethnography Museum [tr] Bayburt   Turkey
2022   Museum of Footwear and Industry [es] Inca   Spain
2023   Otar Lordkipanidze Vani Archaeological Museum of Georgian National Museum Vani   Georgia

Portimão Museum Prize winners (2019–) edit

The following are the winners of the Portimão Museum Prize:[10]

Year Image Museum Location Country
2019   Brunel's SS Great Britain Bristol   United Kingdom
2020   MO Museum Vilnius   Lithuania
2021   Gruuthusemuseum Bruges   Belgium
2022   University Museum of Bergen Bergen   Norway
2023   Chillida Leku Hernani   Spain

Meyvaert Museum Prize for Sustainability winners (2020–) edit

The following are the winners of the Meyvaert Museum Prize for Sustainability:[11]

Year Image Museum Location Country
2020   Wadden Sea Centre Ribe   Denmark
2021   Museum Walserhaus Bosco/Gurin    Switzerland
2022   Holmegaard Glass Factory Holmegaard   Denmark
2023 Swiss Museum of Agriculture Alberswil    Switzerland

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "THE EUROPEAN MUSEUM OF THE YEAR AWARD". European Museum Forum. 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  2. ^ European Museum Forum, Council of Europe;
  3. ^ a b Mark Brown (14 May 2018). "Design Museum named European museum of the year". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Winners of the European Museum of the Year Award 2018". Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO). 14 May 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2019. The EMYA and the Council of Europe Museum Prize are the longest running and most prestigious museum awards in Europe.
  5. ^ "HISTORY OF THE ORGANISATION". European Museum Forum. 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2019. European Museum of the Year Award scheme was established by three British founders (Kenneth Hudson, Richard Hoggart and John Letts) in 1977.
  6. ^ "Rijksmuseum Boerhaave is European Museum of the Year". Museum Boerhaave. 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019. Founded in 1977, this is the oldest and most prestigious museum award in Europe.
  7. ^ (in English) "ICOM Endowment Fund and European Museum Forum signed agreement for 2016 - 2019" (PDF). Europeanmuseumforum.info. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  8. ^ a b "The Kenneth Hudson Award". European Museum Forum. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  9. ^ a b "EMYA SILLETTO PRIZE". European Museum of the Year Award. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  10. ^ a b "The Portimão Museum Prize – Europe's Most Welcoming Museum". European Museum Forum. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  11. ^ a b "The Meyvaert Museum Prize for Sustainability". European Museum Forum. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  12. ^ "THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE MUSEUM PRIZE". European Museum Forum. 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  13. ^ "Becoming a candidate — The European Museum of the Year Award". 25 April 2019. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  14. ^ Maev Kennedy (1 May 2002). "Steaming". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
  15. ^ Brian Lavery (17 July 2002). "Arts Abroad; An Irish Castle for Religious Manuscripts". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
  16. ^ Jonathan Glancey (13 September 2004). "Spiralling into Oblivion". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 11 April 2009. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
  17. ^ 2010 European Museum of the Year Award, Tampere, Finland, 19–22 May 2010.
  18. ^ "The Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, Belgium, won the European Museum of the Year Award 2011" (PDF) (Press release). European Museum Forum. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
  19. ^ Brown, Mark (14 May 2018), "Design Museum named European museum of the year", The Guardian, retrieved 7 July 2018
  20. ^ "The Council of Europe Museum Prize". European Museum Forum. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

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