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.

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 award1977 (1977)
Final award2021 (2021)
Websiteeuropeanforum.museum
2017 Map of European Museum of the Year Award-winning museum locations

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]

History

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

Categories

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

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

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–)

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 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[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
2024 Sámi Museum Siida Inari Finland

Council of Europe Museum Prize winners (1977–)

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 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 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 Bern  Switzerland
2020 Museum of Secret Surveillance Tirana Albania
2021 Gulag History Museum Moscow Russia
2022 Nano Nagle Place Cork Ireland
2023 The Workers Museum Copenhagen Denmark

Kenneth Hudson Award winners (2010–)

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 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–)

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

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

Portimão Museum Prize winners (2019–)

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–)

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

References

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  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 on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  8. ^ a b "The Kenneth Hudson Award". European Museum Forum. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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  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.
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  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.
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