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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.

Logotype of the European Museum of the Year Award.

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.[1] It was founded in 1977 by journalist, author Kenneth Hudson.[2] 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 two years.

EMYA is awarded to two kinds of museums:[3]

  • Established museums that have undergone modernization or expansion during the past two years.
  • New museums opened to the public in the previous two years.
    Map of European Museum of the Year Award winning museum locations

Two more awards are simultaneously presented by the European Museum Forum: the Kenneth Hudson Award, and the Silletto Prize. See European Museum Forum for more information. The Fonds de dotation de l’ICOM of the International Council of Museums supports the European Museum of the Year Award.[4]

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European Museum of the Year winnersEdit

Year Museum Location Country Ref
1977   Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Ironbridge   United Kingdom
1978   Schloss Rheydt Museum Mönchengladbach   West Germany
1979 Museum of the Camargue 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 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 York   United Kingdom [5]
2002   Chester Beatty Library Dublin   Ireland [6]
2003 Victoria and Albert Museum - British Galleries London   United Kingdom [7]
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 Stralsund   Germany [8]
2011   Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren Tongeren   Belgium [9]
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 London   United Kingdom [10]

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ European Museum Forum, Council of Europe.
  2. ^ Museum of Broken Relationships wins Kenneth Hudson Award, European Cultural Foundation.
  3. ^ European Museum of the Year Award[permanent dead link]. BRICKS Project: Building resources for Integrated Cultural knowledge Services, 2005.
  4. ^ (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.
  5. ^ Maev Kennedy (1 May 2002). "Steaming". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
  6. ^ Brian Lavery (17 July 2002). "Arts Abroad; An Irish Castle for Religious Manuscripts". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
  7. ^ Jonathan Glancey (13 September 2004). "Spiralling into Oblivion". New Statesman. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
  8. ^ 2010 European Museum of the Year Award, Tampere, Finland, 19–22 May 2010.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ Brown, Mark (14 May 2018), "Design Museum named European museum of the year", The Guardian, retrieved 7 July 2018

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