A WORD FROM THE BOARD 2020 will be remembered by many if not all as the year of the pandemic. That goes for museums across Europe and the European Museum Academy as well. Travel restrictions and safety precautions made it imperative to cancel the visits to museums by our judges and therefore it has not been possible to work with ...
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A WORD FROM THE BOARD Museums all over Europe are entering the summer months with Corona fears clouding the prospects of visitor numbers. At the same time museums have implemented all kinds of measures to keep the risk of virus spread to a minimum. The European Museum Academy feels it will be a terrible loss if the potential of knowledge-based ...
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A WORD FROM THE BOARD 07/05/2020 Dear colleagues and friends, Despite initial cautious approaches to easing lockdown all over Europe, the impact of Covid-19 has caused too many imponderables that simply make it impossible to carry out the 2020 EMA Awards with all the jury work involved. Hence, the Board of the European Museum Academy decided yesterday to postpone the ...
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This month’s article is written by Sandro Debono. Sandro Debono (b. 1970) is a museum thinker and culture strategist. He is the brains behind MUŻA – The Malta National Community Art Museum which he spearheaded and for which he developed the origional guiding vision. He is culture advisor to the President of the Republic of Malta, the national representative at ...
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A WORD FROM THE BOARD In COVID-19 times museums are suffering as they have to close their doors to their guests. But the people are suffering even more as they cannot have the physical experience of art and heritage. In scarce times creativity thrives! Fortunately, many museums are finding interesting ways to reach their audiences anyway. Our colleagues at NEMO ...
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This month’s article is written by Daria Hookk. Her childhood dream is to become “space cyber mechanic” led her to go to the Department of Cybernetics in the Saint Petersburg, Polytechnical University. She is started in 1991 as a programmer with a master’s degree in engineering, resulted in PhD degree in Math Linguistics. Considering The Hermitage is a planet in the ...
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As the world is going through the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the museums in Europe and all over the world are closed. However, museums explore new ways to keep in touch with their visitors. We presume, this same report for the year 2020 will be either very interesting or dull for the first 6 months of 2020. While we fulfill ...
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This month’s article is from René Capovin and tells us the past decade of EMA through the Micheletti Foundation. René Capovin has a degree and PhD in Philosophy, Master in Museology. Since 2008 he is a researcher at the Luigi Micheletti Foundation, a study center on contemporary history, and is head of Project Office of the musil – Museum of ...
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An interesting piece from the EMA Director Dr. Henrik Zipsane about what the European Museum Academy has been doing and will do in the future; why it is necessary for the museum sector. Please enjoy the reading! EMA-10-YEARS-PUBLICATION_HENRIKZIPSANEDownload
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Here is a brief look at the Awards, registration information, tips on where to stay and exciting highlights. Check out the pdf document below! EMA-Awards-2019_InvitationDownload
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