NEWSLETTER – SUMMER ISSUE 2024
EMA publishes details of its current activities in an occasional Newsletter. Its Press Releases will continue to focus on individual announcements and events. A European
Meet us in Nicosia next October!
You can register for this unique event by filling the registration form and sending it to the email address: ema2024@leventisgallery.org
The call for submissions for the Museums in Short Award 2024 is now open.
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The shortlist for the Children in Museums award has been published.
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The European Museum Academy (EMA) is pleased to announce that as of 1 September 2024 four new Board members have been appointed: Annemies Broekgaarden, Loukia Loizou Hadijgavriel, Robert Zydel, and Margaret McColl.
With this strategic expansion of its Board, the European Museum Academy is actively pursuing its course of reform and with the new Board members it is gaining highly esteemed colleagues from the European museum and cultural scene who, with their respective expertise, will help determine the Academy’s future course.
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“On behalf of the existing EMA Board, I would like to extend a warm welcome to the new members, and I look forward to a good and fruitful collaboration.”
Karl B. Murr
Chairman of the European Museum Academy
EMA publishes details of its current activities in an occasional Newsletter. Its Press Releases will continue to focus on individual announcements and events. A European
On May 31, the Portuguese Museum Association (Associação Portuguesa de Museologia — APOM) organized, in Porto, Portugal, its annual award ceremony. In the presence of an audience of museologists, the European Museum Academy was granted the award in the category of International Organisation.
Museums in Short is an international contest open to short videos realised by/for/with museums. The award is for institutions, authors or producers who use audiovisual language to enhance museum communication and engage audiences. The call for submissions is now open.
On September 12th, 2024, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) will organize an international symposium on the future of WWII restitution policies, in The Netherlands, and other countries, of cultural heritage looted by the Nazi regime.
EMA publishes details of its current activities in an occasional Newsletter. Its Press Releases will continue to focus on individual announcements and events.
EMA continues interviewing experts in their field. For our current issue we have been speaking to René Capovin who is the director of the musil – museum of industry and labor in Brescia, member of EMA and the creator of Museums in Short.
We are working hard on archiving the many awards and special distinction which we organise or participate in. These awards and their prize-winners are showcased in our dedicated galleries see the Heritage in Motion Gallery, and the Art Museum Award Gallery. A new feature on this site is a collection of interactive maps, showing you which countries are represented in our ongoing mission to support excellence in museums and galleries.
The European Museum Academy is a volunteer society of museum experts from different national and cultural backgrounds, united for the advancement of knowledge in museology.
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