European Museum of the Year Award

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]

European Museum of the Year winners

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 also

References

  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. 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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