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EMF Board of Trustees 2021 EMF Jury 2021 ■ Jette Sandahl, Denmark (Chair) ■ Marlen Mouliou, (ex officio) (Chair, EMYA Jury ■ Mark O’Neill, United Kingdom (Chair – until ■ Bernadette Lynch, United Kingdom – from December 2020), Assistant Professor of December 2020) Writer, lecturer, and researcher in museum theory ■ David Anderson, OBE, United Kingdom Associate Professor, College of Arts, University of and practice Director, National Museums of Wales (until May Museology, National and Kapodistrian University of Glasgow 2020) Athens ■ Linda Mol, The Netherlands ■ Kimmo Antila, Finland (until December 2020) Head of Audience Engagement, Teylers Museum ■ Kimmo Antila, Finland ■ Mark O’Neill, United Kingdom (ex officio, Chair of Director, Finnish Postal Museum, Tampere ■ Marlen Mouliou, Greece (Chair – from Director, Finnish Postal Museum, Tampere (from EMYA Jury – until December 2020) January 2020) December 2020) ■ Christophe Dufour, Switzerland ■ Joan Roca i Albert, Spain Assistant Professor of Museology, National and Former Director, Muséum d’histoire naturelle de ■ Jonas Dahl, Sweden Kapodistrian University of Athens Director, Barcelona City History Museum (MUHBA) Neuchâtel Senior Advisor, Statement Public Affairs (Treasurer) (from January 2020) ■ Adriana Munoz, Sweden ■ Atle Faye, Norway ■ Sharon Heal, United Kingdom Curator, National Museums of World Culture, Communication Team Manager, Oslo Academy of the Director, Museums Association (from May 2020: ■ Benedetta Tiana, United Kingdom Gothenburg Arts Company Secretary) Principal, BT Museum Consultancy (until May 2020) ■ Joan Roca i Albert, Spain (until December 2020) ■ Metka Fujs, Slovenia ■ Peter Keller, Austria (ex officio) Director, Barcelona City History Museum (MUHBA) ■ Jouetta Van Der Ploeg, The Netherlands Historian, Museum Councillor, Director, Pomurje Director General, International Council of Museums Former Head of Exhibitions, Museum De Voorde, Museum Murska Sobota ■ Jahangir Selimkhanov, Azerbaijan (ICOM) former Director, Stadsmuseum Zoetermeer Head of International Relations, Azerbaijan National ■ Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Poland (until ■ Vesna Marjanovic, Serbia Conservatory December 2020) Culture and Media Policies Advisor, Centre for ■ Maria Cristina Vannini, Italy Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, ■ Dina Sorokina, Russian Federation Democracy Foundation Principal, soluzionimuseali-ims (until May 2020) POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Director, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Museum (Yeltsin Warsaw Center), Yekaterinburg Portimão Partnership ■ José Gameiro, Portugal (Partnership Liaison) ■ Pedro Branco, Portugal (EMF Administrator)
EMF National Correspondents 2021 National Correspondents provide a network of information between museums throughout Europe. They CZECH REPUBLIC GERMANY welcome news of developments and activities that may be conveyed to a wider audience through the European Museum Forum. ■ Jana Souckova ■ Jörg Busch Czech Committee of the Blue Shield, Czech Managing Director, Vulkanpark GmbH Committee for UNESCO j.busch@vulkanpark.com jana.souckova@volny.cz ALBANIA ■ Pieter Van der Gheynst GREECE Director, Brussels Museums DENMARK ■ Ilirjan Gjipali pieter@brusselsmuseums.be ■ Anna Vogli Head, Department of Prehistory, Institute for ■ Ole Winther Head, PR, S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. Archaeology ■ Sofie Wilder Head, Museum Department, Danish Agency for annavogli20@gmail.com Culture igjipali@gmail.com Director, Museums of Turnhout ole@kulturstyrelsen.dk ■ Yiannis Markakis sofie.wilder@turnhout.be Director, Cretan Open-Air Museum ‘Lychnostatis’ ARMENIA ESTONIA info@lychnostatis.gr BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ■ Marine Mkrtchyan ■ Mariann Raisma Secretary, ICOM Armenia Director, University of Tartu Museum HUNGARY ■ Alma Leka marinemkrtchyan85@gmail.com mariann.raisma@ut.ee Museum advisor, Historical Museum of Bosnia and ■ Zsuzsanna Batari Herzegovina Secretary, Scientific Affairs, Hungarian Open Air FINLAND AUSTRIA Secretary, ICOM Bosnia and Herzegovina Museum, Szentendre ■ Jari Harju batarizs@hotmail.com ■ Stefania Pitscheider Soroperra lekaalma@hotmail.com Curator, Helsinki City Museum Director, Frauenmuseum Hittisau jari.harju@hel.fi ICELAND stefania.pitscheider@frauenmuseum.at BULGARIA FRANCE ■ Guðbrandur Benediktsson ■ Stavri Nikolov Director, Reykjavik Museum AZERBAIJAN ■ Benoît de L’Estoile Founding Director, Digital Spaces Living Lab (DSLL) gudbrandur.benediktsson@reykjavik.is Professeur attaché en anthropologie politique, École ■ Firahnaz Musayeva stavri.nikolov@digitalspaces.info | stavri.nikolov@ normale supérieure, Paris gmail.com REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Head, International Relations and Innovation Benoit.de.L.Estoile@ens.fr Department, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum ■ Hugh Maguire ■ Todor Petov ■ Vincent Guichard firahnaz.musa@gmail.com Cultural Heritage Advisor Assistant Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences Director General, Bibracte EPPC hugh@hughmaguire.ie and Arts, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", vg@briacte.fr ■ Roya Taghieva Director, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum Director, My Museum Foundation ITALY GEORGIA royataghieva@gmail.com t.petev@moyatmuzey.org ■ Lana Karaia ■ Marianella Pucci ICOM Georgia Mediator BELGIUM CROATIA lana.karaia@gmail.com mpucci@mediateur.it ■ Alexandre Chevalier ■ Zvjezdana Antos ■ Nino Azmaiparashvili ■ Michele Trimarchi ICOM Belgique Wallonie-Bruxelles Senior Curator, Ethnographic Museum Zagreb Journalist Professor of Cultural Economy, University of Bologna alexandre.chevalier@naturalsciences.be zantos@emz.hr holly_nafi@yahoo.com michtrim@tin.it
■ Sara Minotti NORTH MACEDONIA ■ Sofya Averchenkova UKRAINE Consultant, former EMF Administrator Institute for Cultural Policy ■ Rubinco Belceski saraminottti.82@gmail.com sofya.averchenkova@gmail.com ■ Kateryna Smagliy Institution for Protection of Monuments of Culture Former Director, Kennan Institute Kyiv Office and Museums LATVIA katyulka@hotmail.com SERBIA rubin.belceski@yahoo.com ■ Ineta Zelca Sīmansone ■ Mila Popović-Živančević UNITED KINGDOM Director, Think Tank Creative Museum NORWAY Rector, Alfa BK Univerzitet, Belgrade ■ Heledd Fychan ineta.simansone@creativemuseum.lv ■ Liv Ramskjaer mila.popovic.zivancevic@gmail.com Head, Policy and Public Affairs, National Secretary General, Norwegian Museum Association Museum Wales LIECHTENSTEIN ■ Nikola Krstovic heledd.fychan@nationalmuseumwales.ac.uk LR@museumsforbundet.no Assistant Professor, University of Belgrade ■ Rainer Vollkommer Director, Liechtenstein National Museum POLAND nikola.krstovic@f.bg.ac.rs Rainer.Vollkommer@llv.li ■ Dominika Mroczkowska-Rusiniak PORTUGAL SLOVENIA National Institute for Museums and Public Collections MALTA DRusiniak@nimoz.pl ■ Pedro Branco ■ Bojana Rogelj Skafar Administrator, EMF Office ■ Romina Delia Museum Councillor, Slovene Ethnographic Museum emf@europeanforum.museum PORTUGAL Secretary General, ICOM Malta bojana.rogelj-skafar@etno-muzej.si romi_delia@hotmail.com ■ João Neto Associação Portuguesa de Museologia (APOM) SPAIN MOLDOVA Joao.Neto@anf.pt ■ Karmele Barandiaran ■ Nicoleta Zagura ■ Maria Jose Santos Museu San Telmo President, Art and Heritage UNESCO Club Director, Museum of Penafiel karmelebarandiaran@gmail.com culturaunesco@gmail.com mj.santos@cm-penafiel.pt SWITZERLAND MONTENEGRO ROMANIA ■ Nicoleta Zagura ■ Stefanie Steiner ■ Ljiljana Zeković President, Art and Heritage UNESCO Club Archaeologist and cultural journalist Director, Art Museum of Montenegro culturaunesco@gmail.com stefanie.steiner@museums.ch mnl.zekovic@t-com.me RUSSIAN FEDERATION TURKEY THE NETHERLANDS ■ Yuliya Glazyrina ■ Lora Sariaslan ■ Adelheid Ponsioen Perm Regional Museum and Museum of Permian Consultant Independent curator, Istanbul Antiquities adelheid@ponsioenconsultancy.nl lora.sariaslan@gmail.com glazyrina_yuliya@mail.ru ■ Jan Hovers ■ Ana Glinskaya ■ Murat Ertuğrul Gülyaz Former Director, Zaans Museum Russian Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Directorate, Nevşehir Museum Jan@hovers.nl Heritage mgulyaz@hotmail.com
EMYA and the Corona Pandemic 2020 was a year of uncertainty and should keep faith with museums at a point difficult decisions. The Covid-19 in time when they were struggling, as never pandemic was a challenge to the core before, to remain open, or reopen, or to find for the EMYA competition and the new relevance and develop new fields of European Museum Forum, which are, communication with their constituents and in essence, transnational and rooted in audiences. A high number of museums, real, physical encounters. The pandemic correspondingly, kept faith with EMYA and has disrupted and dislocated the applied for EMYA2021, and the judges had to EMYA annual conferences and award show unusual resourcefulness, adaptability, ceremonies for both 2020 and 2021, and creativity to navigate the Covid-19 and it was after much deliberation that obstacle race of museums closing and the European Museum Forum board international travel bans to visit the candidate decided to invite candidates for an museums. As the second wave of Covid-19 8 EMYA2021 competition. We thought again locked Europe down, the remaining, 9 it important that we, as a well-known unvisited candidates had to be deferred to the and highly visible award scheme, coming season of EMYA2022. The Futures 2020 was a year when discussions of dystopian – futures”. As of early 2021 it the value and relevance of museums still remains to be seen whether or how the were forced to the surface – at times corona pandemic will reshape museums, and exposing unexpected discrepancies it still remains to be seen whether or when the between the self-image of museums ethical critique of the systemic oppression and and the way they are seen in society. supremacy in museums in terms of race, class, It was a year in which the future was gender, or sexual orientation, which intensified much discussed, as was the future of powerfully in North America and the United museums. The “future concerns us all Kingdom in 2020, will reach museums in – and we can all help to shape it”, says mainland Europe. one museum. Museums can, importantly, serve as “a platform for interdisciplinary and participative engagement with possible, desirable, utopian – and even
A museum “aims to bring together creatives around”, and a “Forum”, where “people can The Future Belongs to Kids from different backgrounds to engage in exchange ideas about future topics in a broad productive dialogues, encouraging experimental variety of formats”. Museums often place children at the heart of to camps and those who found themselves thinking, collective methodologies. and personal these possible futures. This is true in relation behind barbed wire”, while another has created growth.” Another, playfully, wants to be the At our point in time, natural science disciplines to a sustainable future for nature, where “The Children’s Republic”, “an experience- place where "people fall in love with art for call for “fluid narrative threads”, when they museums strive to encourage in every child based environment, where children learn the the first time. We plant the seed for a lifetime “take visitors on a journey through space “a passion” for “nature around the corner” principles of society and the functioning of a of art-viewing pleasure. We are the laboratory and time”, providing a glimpse of “the laws and to “enthuse pupils about the wonderful democratic country and the roles citizens play”. in the field. We are the museum that keeps on governing the universe”, “how life has adapted world of nature, science, technology, and A third museum enables children to create investigating what a museum is and should to every corner of the planet over millions of sustainability”. One museum “tells about the their own city, “as an architect, city planner, or be”. years”, and “how the human mind alone has fates of children during the times of repression construction worker”. the capacity to wonder about the laws that – those whose parents were executed or sent A science museum speaks for many in govern the universe and discover them”. articulating “three programmatic pillars”: a “Thinking Space” for interacting “with different approaches, ideas, and visions of Building Bridges the future”, a “Futurium Lab”, where “people can experiment, try out their ideas, and tinker One museum expresses the fundamental Museums want to “build bridges between intention of being a “collection-oriented the different disciplines and sectors: between museum, housed in an exceptional historical science, economy, politics, arts, and civil Across Barriers and Borders 10 building, a classical, elegant museum with society” and to “bring together people from 11 a contemporary, adventurous approach”. the most diverse backgrounds and to make Others underscore the obligation to increase From the back offices of museums, from Use of ICT and VR-technologies have encounters possible that would otherwise be become “the curator’s language. Sound, their “relevance in contemporary life”, and collection management and research impossible”. moving pictures, and light are as important “contribute to the sense of belonging and departments, new digital technologies increase cultural heritage”, as “a place of identification the access to collections and the knowledge as architecture or graphic design”. Closed and pride”. embedded in them. “Available 24/7, accessible due to Covid-19, some museums “proactively everywhere, and adding an infinite amount of diversified the digital content in order to information about the collection”, they allow continue connecting with audiences online A Consistent Focus on Participation “visitors to listen to stories about collection and via social media”. A special museum objects that interest them, and so create their “app enabled people to explore the artworks, own tailored museum experience”. browse through exclusive interviews and Every year museums that have gone through Across disciplines, types, and scales, new articles, follow meet-ups on Instagram Live. A a “complete metamorphosis”, reiterate that museums are “characterised by dialogue-based Spotify mixtape was launched featuring new “the renewal was a comprehensive, content- formats and a consistent focus on participation”. Across borders and across disciplines, new playlists each week”. driven process involving not just the building, They want to reach the standard “educated ICT infrastructures shared by “natural history but every aspect of the museum – from the middle class” as well as the “urban subcultures”, museums, botanical gardens, and collection- collection and the internal organisation to the skate-borders, the music fans. They create holding universities” begin to enable “the exhibition policy and visitor strategy”. Easier, “multi-layered narratives”, build “participative transformation of a fragmented landscape as one museum dryly remarks, when ”there and innovative bridges for everyone”, giving of the crucial natural science collections into were no emotional attachments to the ‘old’ them "the possibility to actively choose and an integrated knowledge base that provides and no part of the former exhibition was investigate, shaping their personal experience interconnected hard evidence on the natural deemed worthy to be preserved”. and learning process”. world”.
A Tactile, Sensory Experience “the region with social/economic projects that undertakings, such as giving them to blood generate value for its population”. Another donors and children living in orphanages”. museum wants to “act as a motor for creative While the digital experiences increase in the material, the shapes”. One museum defines developments in the region”, while a third In terms of the sustainability of their own quality and scope, a number of museums itself as “a safe space for museum artefacts supports tourism of the region by opening funding, one museum has deliberately this year also highlight their “tactile stations” with open access for visitors”. In storage high-end concept stores with “carefully selected reinvested all the funds of its foundation in and “sensory trails”. Opening an experience facilities, adapted to the purpose, complete with design objects and unique pieces created in 2019 “according to ethical and sustainable usually reserved for museum professionals, a café on the floor of the porcelain collections collaboration with local artists”, as well as principles”. A couple have conducted “large- they create an alternative, sensual access to and glazed doors to signify transparency, this hosting a number of new restaurants and a scale crowdfunding campaigns”. One has objects, “an opportunity to look closely at and, museum allows the public access to and insight boutique hotel on its grounds. One museum secured stable funding through the commitment wearing gloves, touch some artefacts, check into the protected and restorative life of objects gives back to its community by donating of a commercial company to “provide 5 % of its the weight of artefacts, feel the ornaments on and collections behind the scenes. free tickets to support “various charitable yearly net profit to the museum every year”. Sustainabilities Recovery Sustainability, in nature, in the environment, in Another museum “is ready to face the future”, As in previous years, there are museums A new national history museum deviates from economic and social structures, ranges high in using its “own geothermal heat pump system, focused on drawing attention to the traditional celebratory interpretations of the concerns of museums today. sustainable ventilation, 100 per cent LED understanding the mechanisms of covert national history. “The creation of the narrative lighting, solar panels, green roofs, an energy- and overt issues of repression. One museum is not based on telling a success story, but “We want to describe, understand, and explore friendly climate control system, and gallery addresses “the history of mass repression, rather by introducing various paradoxes 12 biodiversity for human wellbeing and the future spaces with flexible layouts”. forced labor, and political unfreedom” to of life”. It takes an upbeat approach to its 13 of our planet. We see biodiversity as our life prevent “similar tragic events from repeating country’s history, national identity, and its support system, vital to the future of life on “A conscious shaping of the future” implies in the future”. Digging deeper than “the official “peculiarities through the prism of humour”. earth and human survival”, says one museum. balancing “individual freedom with community- historical narrative”, it explores “personal An exhibition on the country’s grim and “Water and climate change do not recognise orientated sustainability”. The “right measure” lives” through "first-hand accounts of the difficult period of foreign occupation is borders, so these are joint concerns for European is found only through a constant “process of personal tragedy”, which “allow us to preserve ambiguously titled “Choose the Best Past”. countries”, says another. Museums strive to negotiation in the public discourse”. Museums the most important pages of family history “inform the general public about community and take their place in this discourse in multiple and view them within the context of national individual responsibilities towards environmental ways, from urban gardening projects to history”. protection” and “to help shape a unified exhibitions on bees and ecology, from toboggan ecological approach on a societal scale through runs in the garden to exhibitions on snow and research and the provision of information”. climate change. EMYA2021 The commitment to environmental sustainability Likewise, museums get involved in the social also comes through in the use of only “local and economic sustainability of their regions. 2021 is also looking pretty grim, and we usually do, the candidate museums for materials from the region for the renovation, EMYA2021 takes place as an online event EMYA2021 are as interesting and innovative employing local workshops and craftspeople” “Having witnessed the abandonment of both – a pale substitute for our traditional, rich, as every year, their accomplishments as and letting “the natural materials and the physical and social values of the region”, a and intense annual conference and award impressive as every year, and their efforts thick walls create a perfect, constant indoor museum has a goal of initiating “intellectual ceremony. But please, do explore all the should be no less appreciated. climate in terms of temperature and humidity, discussions on the social impacts of immigration, candidates’ own video presentations on which allowed the museum to do without whilst gathering/protecting all the abandoned the EMYA2021 website. While we cannot ■ Jette Sandahl environmentally harmful, risky air conditioning”. and damaged pieces of the past” and providing meet, exchange, and celebrate in the ways Chair, European Museum Forum
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Portimão: The Home of EMYA After many years leading a nomadic existence, moving our offices (and In recognition of this support, the EMF our archives) to different cities across has created the Portimão Museum Prize Europe, EMYA finally found a long-term for a museum that, in the opinion of the home in 2018 in Portimão, in Portugal’s jury, is the most welcoming and friendly of Algarve. The Municipality of Portimão that year’s nominated candidates. These is committed to democratic access to are very important values for Portimão, culture, which was reflected in Portimão which welcomes hundreds of thousands Museum winning the Council of Europe of tourists every year. The main quality the Museum Prize in 2010. Dedicated to prize celebrates is a friendly atmosphere of cultural participation in Europe, the welcome so that all visitors, no matter what Municipality’s partnership with EMYA their background, feel they belong in the 16 is a way to build on the success of their museum. All elements of the museum – its 17 innovative museum and support the human qualities and physical environment development of museums across the – contribute to the feeling of welcome, as continent. The partners agreed that do events and activities in and around the the Municipality, through the museum, museum. would provide administrative support for the EMF and a home for the EMF /EMYA Archive.
European Museum of the Year Award THE CANDIDATES | 2021
LEOGANG, Austria HITTISAU, Austria Bergbau- und Gotikmuseum Leogang Frauenmuseum Hittisau Museum of Mining and Gothic Art Leogang Women’s Museum Hittisau The Museum of Mining and Gothic Art Women's Museum Hittisau was founded exhibition, but rather one multifunctional Leogang is located in the Austrian village of The Museum of Mining and Gothic Art in 2000 in a small municipality in the rural space for exhibitions and gatherings. In 2020, Hütten. The name of the village, which means Leogang has assembled the largest such district of Bregenz. The museum is located in for its 20th anniversary, the museum opened “huts,” refers to important mining operations collection outside the city of Salzburg, a the Fire Brigade and Culture House, an award- an exhibition entitled Birth Cultures: Giving that were at their heyday here in the medieval considerable achievement for a village winning building completed in the same year. Birth and Being Born, part of which was an period. The wealth produced by these mines of 3,500 inhabitants. About a third of Unique in Austria, Women's Museum Hittisau outdoor Room for Birth and Sense, an art made it possible to purchase great works the collection are loans from important is a member of the International Association of project that evokes a natural birthing space. of fine and decorative art. The Museum of private and public collections. While Women's Museums. Its mission is to present Mining and Gothic Art Leogang was created the permanent exhibition showcases diverse aspects of women’s lives both locally The museum, which is run by one full-time in an effort to raise historical awareness of masterpieces of Gothic art, including and globally by bringing attention to women’s person, employs local women of all ages the village’s mining history, rural life, and sculpture, medieval furniture, fittings, door living conditions, advocating for greater and backgrounds part-time. These women exceptional gothic art collection in the area handles, padlocks, models of tiled stoves, inclusion, and raising political awareness. The are encouraged to draw on their knowledge of the former Archdiocese of Salzburg. The glass objects, and sacristy wardrobes, museum aims to empower women and to and experience in dialogue with community museum opened in 1992 and expanded over temporary exhibitions are thematic. The celebrate them and their achievements. members and visitors. the years. It currently occupies the former mine history of mining is also represented. administration house and the nearby medieval While the Women's Museum Hittisau does 20 21 residence and defence tower. have a collection, there is no permanent Information Information Museum of Mining and Gothic Art Leogang Women’s Museum Hittisau Hütten 10, 5771 Leogang, Austria Platz 501, 6952 Hittisau, Austria +4365837105 | www.museum-leogang.at | info@museum-leogang.at +435513620930 | www.frauenmuseum.at | kontakt@frauenmuseum.at
BRUGGES, Belgium KARLOVAC, Croatia Muzej Domovinskog rata Karlovac–Turanj Gruuthusemuseum Museum of the Homeland War Karlovac – Turanj Gruuthusemuseum, one of thirteen museums Accessibility, both intellectual and physical, The Karlovac City Museum established the of two armies on the front line, a highly in Musea Brugge, is dedicated to the city’s is a priority. There are tactile stations in all Museum of the Homeland War Karlovac to emotional event within living memory. The 500-year history. Housed in one of the rooms, an audio guide with visual commemorate the 1991–1995 war between narrative sets out the political and economic few remaining 15th-century city palaces, descriptions, and tablets in both Flemish Croatia and the Republic of Serbian Krajina. circumstances leading to the war, the course the museum is named for its most famous Sign Language and International Sign The museum is housed in an old Austrian of the war, the impact on civilians, who spent resident, the Flemish nobleman Louis de Language.The permanent exhibition within barracks in Turanj, a location of military many days in bunkers and basements, and Gruuthuse. In 2014, the city initiated a five- the palace’s evocative rooms is no longer a importance in defending nearby Karlovac victory, with a focus on the Karlovac area. year renovation project that included not only Wunderkammer of decorative and applied since the 16th century. During the most recent Combat technology is presented outdoors. the Gruuthusemuseum itself, but also the art. Instead, a multi-layered exhibition war, Croatian defenders ousted the Yugoslav The exhibition features 394 original artefacts, entire heritage site, including the palace and featuring highlights from the collection army from those barracks, defended Karlovac, multimedia in various formats, and interactive Church of Our Lady, and neo-Gothic buildings presents a history of Brugges that extends and thwarted efforts to divide Croatia. opportunities that not only inform visitors opposite the palace. Most of the palace from the prosperous medieval period and but also encourage them to share their windows have been opened and special filters lesser known 17th and 18th centuries to the A thoughtful architectural solution – enclosing experiences and opinions. The museum also and glass installed in order to bring daylight neo-Gothic revival of the city in the 19th what remains of this protected monument creates an opening for reflection and emotion. into the rooms and offer beautiful views that century. in a glass envelope – has transformed this connect the palace to the city, a UNESCO complex into a modern museum facility 22 23 World Heritage Centre. and memorial. The exhibition tells the story Information Information Gruuthusemuseum Museum of the Homeland War Karlovac – Turanj Dijver 17, 8000 Brugges, Belgium Turanj 2, 47000 Karlovac, Croatia +3250448743 | www.museabrugge.be | musea@brugge.be +38547615980 | www.gmk.hr | gradski-muzej@ka.t-com.hr
COPENHAGEN, Denmark TALLINN, Estonia Københavns Museum Maarjamäe ajalookeskus – Eesti Ajaloomuuseum Museum of Copenhagen Maarjamäe History Center – Estonian History Museum Foundation Located in the centre of Denmark’s capital, city over time, from the Viking era to the The Maarjamäe History Centre opened Soviet-era mural, "Friendship of Nations,” behind City Hall, the Museum of Copenhagen modern period, and “meet” the inhabitants in 2018 to mark the 100th anniversary of which has been carefully preserved and a is dedicated to the history of the city and its of Copenhagen, who describe what it is like the Republic of Estonia. It is situated four new multimedia interpretation of it added, a future. The museum reopened in February to live in the city today. An interactive model kilometres from Tallinn city centre, on a French-style restaurant, and an innovative 2020 after being closed for five years. During and multimedia panorama, by offering a beautiful hill by the seashore, near the new learning environment for youngsters. The that time, the museum renovated an old comprehensive view of the city as a whole, memorial to the victims of communism. This "Children's Republic" encourages youngsters government building that had once housed orient the visitor in space. On leaving the versatile history center, which is attractive to between 5 and 13 years of age to think about social service providers responsible for low- museum, visitors are better prepared to families, consists of a history museum, which citizenship, society, politics, and democracy. income housing, children, and other needs. explore the city itself. Temporary exhibitions illuminates Estonian history from its political The Estonian Film Museum, which is in an The building, with its strong connection to the deal with such topics as the lives of children past to the present, a film museum that tells impressive new building, chronicles the inhabitants of Copenhagen, is the museum’s over time, the role of nature in the city, the the story of Estonia’s film industry, and a park. history of film technology and industry from principal object. archaeology of Copenhagen, and the archive a broad perspective and includes a modern of Søren Kierkegaard. Equipped with a café The history museum is housed in the movie theatre, café, and shop. Soviet-era The new permanent exhibition orients and shop, the Museum of Copenhagen creates Maarjamäe historical palace and includes a monuments created between 1945 and 1991 the visitor to the city in time and space. a welcoming atmosphere. new permanent exhibition, "My Free Country”, are arranged outdoors in a striking way and Visitors can experience the history of the a gallery for temporary exhibitions, a massive are properly contextualised. 24 25 Information Information Museum of Copenhagen Maarjamäe History Center, Estonian History Museum Stormgade18,1555 København V, Denmark Pirita tee 56, Tallinn 10127, Estonia +4521764366 | www.cphmuseum.kk.dk | museum@kff.kk.dk +3726968600 | www.ajaloomuuseum.ee | post@ajaloomuuseum.ee
HAAPSALU, Estonia BERLIN, Germany Haapsalu linnus Haapsalu Castle Museum Futurium The Haapsalu and Läänemaa museums have elements perfectly suit the historic structure, At Futurium, a “house of futures,” everything Futurium is divided into three main areas. The successfully completed the long-awaited which is now fully accessible. revolves around the question: How do exhibition, “Discovering Futures,” occupies renovation of the Haapsalu medieval castle. we want to live? Founded in 2014 as about 3,200 m2 on three floors. Focusing on The renovation was carried out from 2017 The new permanent exhibition takes visitors an independent non-profit organisation, people, nature, and technology, the exhibition to 2019, with support from the European though a clearly narrated history of Haapsalu Futurium defines itself as a forum for encourages visitors to envision different Regional Fund and the Estonian Ministry of and engages them with well-designed informed discussion on shaping the future. futures and think about controversial topics. Culture. Designed by KAOS architects and hands-on interactives, which are more in Berlin architects Richter and Musikowskii Visitors can download information from the constructed by AS Restor, the renovation keeping with the historic castle and its unique designed Futurium’s building, which exhibition. The Lab is a place to try things out. respects the old and creates something atmosphere than high-tech multimedia. Using combines pure, sculptural form with openness Visitors can explore future technologies and new for the site, the city, and the entire reconstructions and models, visitors can try and accessibility, while meeting the highest work on new inventions during workshops. western Estonia Läänemaa region. Carefully out a gunpowder mill or the principles of a minimum-energy standards and integrating The Forum organises lectures and discussions planned with historians and antiquarians, the lift bridge. Those who have experienced the such elements as the solar cell panel on and brings together scientists, artists, renovation preserves the authentic remains medieval environment at Haapsalu Castle the roof into the architectural design. The visionaries, doers, and everyday people. throughout, while adding light new bridges Museum now see the picturesque town of Skywalk on the roof offers a spectacular view and passages across the castle walls and Haapsalu from a new point of view. of the government quarter, including the Accessible and welcoming, Futurium inspires ruins, as well as a dramatic route from the Federal Chancellery and Reichstag, and of the visitors to imagine what the future might hold. 26 27 cellars to the viewing platform. These new River Spree. Information Information Haapsalu Castle Museum Futurium Lossiplats 3, Haapsalu, 90502 Lääne maakond, Estonia Alexanderufer 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany +37253853575 | linnus.salm.ee | linnus@salm.ee +4930408189777 | futurium.de | info@futurium.de
MUNICH, Germany TÜBINGEN, Germany Knorr-Bremse Forum Kunsthalle Tübingen Knorr-Bremse Forum is the company museum transportation of goods. Thematic islands Located in a residential neighborhood of Director Dr. Nicole Fritz and her team, made of Knorr-Bremse, a global manufacturer feature Knorr-Bremse products and their Tübingen, easily reached from the city up almost entirely of young women, have of brake systems for rail and commercial operation inside models of various transport centre, Kunsthalle Tübingen is the leading reshaped the identity of Kunsthalle Tübingen vehicles. In 2019, the company completely vehicles. Sophisticated digital simulations, art museum in this university town. Founded and brought greater integration, participation, revamped its in-house museum. Located interactives, models, and hands-on exhibits in 1971, Kunsthalle Tübingen reopened and innovation to the institution. They have in the former BMW production site, a explain the scientific principles and the after renovation in 2017. This art gallery succeeded in attracting new and varied neoclassical building in Munich, the museum process of developing new products. The appeals to young and old alike with its rich publics in increasing numbers to their presents the company's history and addresses goal is to showcase the company’s most multidisciplinary programmes, including monographic and thematic exhibitions on the future of mobility in relation to urban challenging and innovative products and their no less than ten art exhibitions in the last topics ranging from computer mediations of planning, demography, and the positive advanced technological knowledge in ways three years, as well as music and dance masterpieces and the afterlife of minimal art impact of technology on the environment. that the public can understand. Knorr-Bremse programmes, poetry slams, reenactments of to hyper-realistic sculpture, biogenetics, and Forum, as the name implies, is a platform famous paintings, and clowns as mediators. the future of humankind. Kunsthalle Tübingen, The new exhibition integrates the company's for education and debate for employees, Kunsthalle Tübingen offers innovative which enjoys an international reputation, two divisions, rail vehicles, and commercial customers, and partners. The museum offers art education programs that connect past offers visitors a warm welcome in a relaxed vehicles, which had previously been treated guided tours for a wider audience on special and present and raise issues relevant to and comfortable setting. separately. The narrative is organised occasions. contemporary society. 28 29 around the transportation of people and the Information Information Knorr-Bremse Forum Kunsthalle Tübingen Knorr-Bremse, Building B, Moosacher Straße 8080809, Munich, Germany Philosophenweg 76, 72076 Tübingen, Germany +49893547183709 | forum.anfragen@knorr-bremse.com +49707196910 | www.kunsthalle-tuebingen.de | info@kunsthalle-tuebingen.de
STUTTGART, Germany ESZTERGOM, Hungary StadtPalais – Museum für Stuttgart Magyar Környezetvédelmi és Vízügyi Múzeum – Duna Múzeum StadtPalais – Museum for Stuttgart Hungarian Museum of Water Management and Environmental Protection – Danube Museum Until the opening in 2018 of StadtPalais – activities and exhibitions. Crowds of Museum for Stuttgart, the state capital of visitors flock to the museum’s two annual Hungary’s National Water Authority established The museum renovated its 18th-century building Baden-Württemberg had no city museum. festivals – Stuttgart am Meer (Stuttgart the Danube Museum in 1973 to document a and created a new permanent exhibition. Unlike most city museums, which focus by the Sea) and Stuttgart im Schnee century of water management and prepare the Original objects include hydrological mapping only on the history of the city, Museum for (Stuttgart in the Snow) – which are held public for the future of managing water. The instruments, ship models, various tools and Stuttgart engages local residents in the city’s outdoors in the front and back gardens museum is strategically located in Esztergom, on equipment, and documents related to water use present and future. As an open forum and of the StadtPalais, The museum, which the right bank of the Danube River, which forms and water management. They are supported urban laboratory, the museum is a place attracted over 200,000 visitors since the border with Slovakia and was instrumental by graphics, multimedia, and interactive to reimagine the future development of reopening, fosters a sense of belonging for in the development of the city. The museum opportunities to explore topics in greater depth. Stuttgart. At the StadtbauAkademie, young all residents and all social classes, while belongs to the Governmental Directorate of At the entrance to the exhibition is a dramatic people explore architecture and city planning satisfying the curiosity of tourists and Water Management. Thanks to an agreement water machine, which visitors activate by and suggest ways to support the planning of others. between the Directorate and the European touching a sensor. Water pipes or blue lines sustainable public and private space. Association of Climate-Friendly Towns, the new representing water guide the visitor through the permanent exhibition, Vízeúm – “viz” (water) various topics – how we have made nature work The Museum for Stuttgart’s diverse and Múzeum – was able to receive European for us, the negative effects of our actions on the programmes bring new publics, especially Union funding for activities related to water environment, especially on sources of water, and 30 31 those who never visit museums, to its popular conservation and environmental protection. how we can change our behaviour. Information Information StadtPalais - Museum for Stuttgart Hungarian Museum of Water Management and Environmental Protection – Danube Museum Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 2, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany Kölcsey utca 2, 2500 Esztergom, Hungary +4971121625800 | www.stadtpalais-stuttgart.de | stadtpalais@stuttgart.de +3633500250 | www.dunamuzeum.hu | info@dunamuzeum.hu
LISSE, The Netherlands LEIDEN, The Netherlands LAM Museum Museum De Lakenhal LAM, a new private non-profit museum of meaning of Keukenhof, kitchen garden, Museum De Lakenhal, a classic municipal art building and collections. Its vision is to inspire, contemporary art, is owned by VandenBroek in interesting ways, taking advantage of and history museum of the late 19th century, has renew, and connect in a contemporary fashion Foundation. It offers a point of entry for beautiful vistas to the surrounding park and been extensively renovated, expanded, and by focusing on the value and enhancement of people unfamiliar with art and museums in the thematic focus of its art collection on food revamped to better represent the city of Leiden local spirit. the hope that they will fall in love with art. and consumption. in the world. This ambitious project entailed the LAM provides tools for a playful process of restoration of the 17th-century Laecken-Halle, Museum De Lakenhal makes the visual arts, developing visual literacy by encouraging This art museum as experimental “laboratory” the most important embodiment of the history applied art, and Leiden’s history accessible visitors to discover creative paths through art. applies a wide range of interpretative of the Netherland’s textile industry, and the to a wide and diverse public. It is known As a socially responsible museum, LAM takes approaches, from on-site viewing coaches, addition of new exhibition spaces, an internal for the high scientific and visual quality an inclusive approach to visiting museums, who engage with visitors, to keeping a delivery zone, and a new functional building for of its exhibitions. It seeks innovation in both socially and intellectually, and provides digital daily logbook, which systematically museum staff. museum practice by developing adventurous, personalised experiences for all visitors. documents visitors’ interactions with art. interdisciplinary projects through an open During COVID 19, LAM introduced the Reflecting the special place of Leiden in the dialogue with its diverse publics and in Housed in a modern transparent building, Viewphone LAM experience to combat social history of the textile industry in the Netherlands cooperation with external partners. purpose-built and welcoming, LAM is located isolation by offering citizens brief timeslots for and the world, the Museum De Lakenhal in the historic Keukenhof estate and famous phone conversations about art. presents the seven centuries of “Leiden cloth” 32 33 spring garden in Lisse. LAM plays with the to an international public through its historic Information Information LAM Museum Museum De Lakenhal Keukenhof 14, 2161 AN Lisse, The Netherlands Oude Singel 32, 2312 RA Leiden, The Netherlands +31252508800 | www.lamlisse.nl | info@lamlisse.nl +31715165392 | www.lakenhal.nl | info@lakenhal.nl
LEIDEN, The Netherlands KRAKÓW, Poland Thesaurus Cracoviensis – Muzeum Krakowa Naturalis Biodiversity Center Thesaurus Cracoviensis –Museum of Kraków Naturalis is the national biodiversity centre of multitude of interesting activities for different Thesaurus Cracoviensis is the collection tours can also watch the conservators at the Netherlands and one of the largest natural audiences. depot and artefact interpretation centre of the work. School groups can examine artefacts history museums in the world, thanks to its Museum of Kraków, a city museum. Located and even touch them, wearing gloves, while impressive research on global issues involving Naturalis operates under the motto “Together, in an unfinished primary school, Thesaurus teachers and curators offer explanations. climate, food supply, the living environment, we discover the richness of nature”, which Cracoviensis also houses a conservation medicine, and biodiversity preservation. effectively combines love of nature and laboratory and a photography studio. About Thesaurus Cracoviensis, which occupies Naturalis is a young family-oriented museum of connectivity. The spirit of this motto 120,400 out of more than 172,000 artefacts four flours, is accessible and attractive project based on an older museum with a permeates exhibition galleries, laboratories, in the depot are on display. The collection is thanks to custom-designed storage furniture 200-year history and several milestones. After programmes, and all services provided by related to the city and its inhabitants. with glazed surfaces and a clearly marked a complete makeover that took ten years, the museum staff. Love and emotion inform and flexible visitor path. The staff carry everything is now new in Naturalis. Not only the museum’s approach to enhancing public While many museums today include a out not only their specialised duties but is the museum housed in an attractive new awareness of the decline of biodiversity “visible storage” area, they rarely give visitors also educational activities that expose the building, but also Naturalis has merged and worldwide and value of nature and our complete access to the entire storage area collection to the public. This is an innovative digitised the collections of five institutes, relationship to it. and to the staff working there. At Thesaurus role for a city museum, an important place on mounted beautiful and engaging exhibitions, Cracoviensis, one of nineteen branches of the urban cultural map. added many new spaces, and organised a the Museum of Kraków, visitors on scheduled 34 35 Information Information Naturalis Biodiversity Centre Museum Name of Kraków - Thesaurus Cracoviensis Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands Address: Księcia Józefa 337, 30-243 Kraków, Poland +31717519600 | www.naturalis.nl | contact@naturalis.nl Telephone: +48124225147| Email: | Website: | +48124265060 | www.muzeumkrakowa.pl/branches/thesaurus-cracovensis | Director: | thesaurus@muzeumkrakowa.pl
KRAKÓW, Poland CONDEIXA-A-NOVA, Portugal Muzeum Książąt Czartoryskich PO.RO.S – Museu Portugal Romano em Sicó Princes Czartoryski Museum PO.RO.S – Portugal Roman Museum in Sicó Princes Czartoryski Museum, a branch of copies of documents and objects that At PO.RO.S – Portugal Roman Museum army, construction, trade, law, food, politics, the National Museum in Kraków, reopened can even be manipulated, was created in Sicó, an experiential museum, visitors religion, social life, and private life – and from in 2019 with a renewed presentation of by calligraphers, illuminators, armourers, interact with environments evoking Roman the Roman Empire as a whole to the city of its masterpieces: Lady with an Ermine by and other artisans. Accessibility extends times. Condeixa-a-Nova City Council created Conimbriga. Leonardo da Vinci, Landscape with the beyond individual needs to include more and manages this museum along with the Merciful Samaritan by Rembrandt van Rijn, democratic access to the exhibited works. neighbouring museum and archaeological The museum is a catalyst for disseminating and works by many great Polish artists, as This can be experienced most dramatically site of Conimbriga, one of the largest Roman the cultural and natural heritage of Sicó, well as national memorabilia, and for the first in the room devoted to the Lady with an settlements in the province of Lusitania. with its six municipalities. By focusing on the time, art of the Far East and some works from Ermine. The space and lighting bring out process of Romanisation, PO.RO.S enriches the Cabinet of Figures and Drawings and the the aura of the painting as the observer PO.RO.S uses objects and high-tech the experience of the ruins of Conimbriga, Czartoryski Library. approaches the work. multimedia to communicate the historical one of the most visited sites in Portugal, with narrative and create a highly immersive unexpected insights. The museum has made every effort to atmosphere. Entering a time tunnel through improve the quality of the visitor experience various periods of history, visitors finally reach and make the exhibition accessible to all the foundation of Rome. Roman civilisation visitors. A “sensory trail,” which includes is approached from many perspectives – the 36 37 Information Information Princes Czartoryski Museum PO.RO.S – Roman Portugal Museum in Sicó ul. Pijarska 15, 31-015 Kraków, Poland Quinta de S. Tomé Av., Bombeiros Voluntários de Condeixa-a-Nova, nº 41, 3150-160 Condeixa-a-Nova, Portu- +48123705466 | www.mnk.pl/branch/the-princes-czartoryski-museum | dyrekcja@mnk.pl gal+351239949122 | www.poros.pt | info@poros.pt
MOSCOW, Russian Federation BANSKÁ ŠTIAVNICA, Slovakia Muzej istorii GULAGa BANKA LÁSKY GULAG History Museum LOVE BANK Located in central Moscow, the GULAG citizens, with an emphasis on how the victims A tunnel in a former gold mine is now a vault covers the entire surface of the vault. Visitors History Museum is dedicated to the entire maintained their dignity under dehumanising with 100,000 drawers. Visitors deposit a literally find themselves inside the poem. history of the gulag, a massive distributed conditions. The permanent exhibition effectively token of love – a photograph, note, or small While the original manuscript is at the Slovak system of camps in the service of mass moves between the broad sweep of history and object - in a drawer. This installation is National Library in Martin, a facsimile of it repression and forced labour in the USSR personal stories, hard facts and lived experience, inspired by the love story of Marina Pišlova can be found at LOVE BANK, together with a between 1918 and 1956. It is the first and supported by personal objects, art created by and her teacher Andrej Sladkovič, which comprehensive collection of published editions only museum to deal with the gulag in inmates, photographs, and audio and video began in 1838. Their love was doomed from of the poem in many languages. Located in a comprehensive way and the first state testimony. the start because her parents would not allow Banská Štiavnica, once a European centre of memory museum in Russia after the collapse her to marry a poor student. In 1840, when mining, technical progress, and education, of the Soviet Union. Founded in 2001 by a Committed to open discussion of mass she married someone else, Sladkovič began LOVE BANK was conceived as a way to gulag survivor, the museum moved in 2015 repression in the USSR, this municipal writing “Marína”. At 291 stanzas and 2900 raise funds to renovate the House of Marína, to a renovated 1906 apartment building and museum is noteworthy for its courage and verses, “Marína” is the world’s longest love promote the poem, and make the house itself opened its new permanent exhibition in 2018. its compassion. By exposing history and poem. a place of pilgrimage in celebration of love. activating memory, the GULAG History Museum As a human rights museum, the GULAG strengthens the resilience of civil society and Inscribed on the drawers of LOVE BANK, History Museum has a dual focus on the its resistance to political repression and the each drawer bearing one letter, a punctuation 38 39 crimes of the state and the fate of its violation of human rights. mark, or a space from the poem, the text Information Information GULAG History Museum LOVE BANK 1-y Samotechny, pereulok 9/1, 127473 Moscow, Russian Federation Radničné námestie 18, 969 01 Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia +74956217310 | gmig.ru | info@gmig.ru +421455572398 | www.bankalasky.sk | info@bankalasky.sk
BARCELONA, Spain LA CORUÑA, Spain MEGA – Mundo Estrella Galicia CosmoCaixa Estrella Galicia World Established in 1981, the Science Museum is about the future and how we can solve MEGA – Estrella Galicia World is a company to all the senses, MEGA has been especially of Barcelona closed in 1998 and reopened problems that we, as a species, created. museum devoted to the history of beer. The effective in responding to the COVID-19 in 2004 as CosmoCaixa. Its new 30,000 m2 Texts are in Spanish, Catalan, English, and museum interweaves the 110-year history pandemic, demonstrating their commitment permanent exhibition opened in 2019. A French. Inclusive and accessible, CosmoCaixa of Estrella Galicia with the history of the city to live up to their motto: “The museum always project of La Caixa Foundation, the museum offers immersive multimedia experiences that of La Coruña. The museum, newly opened, should be a safe place”. has been fully renovated and expanded engage all the senses the intellect. There is occupies about 2500 m2 in the centre of to quadruple its size. Now a world-class also a planetarium, special opportunities for Estrella Galicia’s beer factory and offers Located in an industrial area, the museum science museum, CosmoCaixa is dedicated small children to explore science in playful guided tours and tasting workshops. has changed the image of the factory and the to educating and empowering the public to ways, a library, teaching centre, museum face of the neighbourhood, helping to make address social inequities today and protect the shop, and café. The exhibition, which is divided into eight it safer, more accessible, and more attractive. planet for future generations. areas, deals not only with the history MEGA Estrella Galicia World demonstrates By fostering love of nature, scientific curiosity, and culture of beer and the history of the the importance of such places for a city like La The new permanent exhibition is in three and appreciation of the contribution of science company, but also with the entire production Coruña. parts. The first part, beginnings, includes to society, CosmoCaixa aims to inspire young process and its scientific basis. The tour big bang theory, physics, and chemistry. The visitors to become scientists. This is a place includes a visit to the factory and boiler room second part deals with evolution and the to come together to create a better world. We and ends with the opportunity to taste beer. 40 41 appearance of homo sapiens. The third part have the tools. We just need the will. Given its experiential approach and appeal Information Information CosmoCaixa MEGA – Mundo Estrella Galicia Carrer d'Isaac Newton 26, 08022 Barcelona, Spain Rúa José María Rivera Corral, 6, 15008 A Coruña, Spain +34932126050 | www.cosmocaixa.com | icosmocaixa@magmacultura.net +34679776307 | mundoestrellagalicia.es | info@mundoestrellagalicia.es
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