DASA Award Gallery

Aarau City Museum, Switzerland
2024 – Candidate
The City Museum Aarau combines local history, photography, and industrial heritage with participatory practice to create a dynamic cultural platform that engages diverse audiences in dialogue and shared cultural responsibility.

Provincial Archaeological Museum of Alicante
2024 – Candidate
The Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ) presents the history of the region through innovative exhibitions, interactive displays, and research that connect archaeology with contemporary museum practice.

Hugh Lane Gallery
2024 – Candidate
The Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin is a historic art museum that showcases modern and contemporary Irish and international art, including masterpieces by Manet, Monet, and Francis Bacon, within the elegant Georgian setting of Charlemont House.

Istanbul Cinema Museum
2024 – Candidate
The İstanbul Cinema Museum, housed in the historic Atlas Cinema on Beyoğlu’s Culture Route, explores the history of Turkish film through original artifacts, interactive digital archives, and a thoughtfully restored 19th-century setting.

Buzău County Museum
2024 – Candidate
The Buzău County Museum is a cultural institution that preserves and interprets the region’s rich heritage through its archaeological, historical, and artistic collections, alongside its ongoing research and publications.

Futurium
2024 – Candidate
The Futurium in Berlin is also considered a “house of futures” where science, culture, politics, and society come together to explore through exhibitions, experiments, and dialogue how we want to live tomorrow.

Leeds Museums and Galleries
2024 – Candidate
Leeds Museums and Galleries is the largest local authority museum service in England and Wales, caring for over a million objects across eight sites and offering insight into the art, history, and heritage of Leeds.

MO Museum
2024 – Candidate
The MO Museum in Vilnius is a contemporary art museum that explores modern Lithuanian culture through its extensive collection, dynamic exhibitions, and community-focused programmes.

The Museum of Herzegovina
2024 – Candidate
The Museum of Herzegovina in Trebinje preserves the region’s cultural and artistic heritage through its archaeological, ethnological, and art collections, including works and legacies by prominent local artists and writers.

Stapferhaus
2024 – Candidate
The Stapferhaus in Lenzburg, Switzerland, is a cultural institution that explores contemporary social and cultural issues through interactive, research-based exhibitions and public dialogue.

Swiss Finance Museum
2024 – Candidate
The Swiss Finance Museum in Zurich explores the history and workings of the financial system through interactive exhibitions that connect economic history with modern innovation.

ARTIS-Groote Museum
2023 – Candidate
ARTIS-Groote Museum in Amsterdam reconnects people with nature through immersive, multisensory exhibitions that explore the deep connections between humans, animals, plants and microbes.

Carmen Thyssen Málaga Museum
2023 – Candidate
The Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga, opened in 2011, is a landmark of Málaga’s cultural transformation, showcasing 19th- and 20th-century Spanish art while fostering creativity, dialogue and participation.

FORUM Wissen (Göttingen, Germany)
2023 – Candidate
FORUM Wissen in Göttingen is a university museum that opens up the creation of knowledge to the public, combining over 70 collections with interactive spaces where visitors can explore how science and research take shape.

Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum (Budapest, Hungary)
2023 – Candidate
The Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum in Budapest reveals the dramatic history of a World War II emergency hospital later transformed into a Cold War nuclear shelter, combining powerful reconstructions with a strong educational mission.

Hungarian Money Museum and Visitor Centre (Budapest, Hungary)
2023 – Candidate
The Hungarian Money Museum and Visitor Centre in Budapest explores the history and role of money through state-of-the-art exhibitions in the restored Postal Palace, making financial culture accessible and engaging for all ages.

Infoturm Stuttgart (Germany)
2023 – Candidate
Infoturm Stuttgart (ITS) is an interactive information centre on the city’s new main railway station, using innovative multimedia and plain language to make complex engineering and urban development accessible to everyone.

Museum of Jan Amos Komenský (Uherský Brod, Czech Republic)
2023 – Candidate
The Museum of Jan Amos Komenský in Uherský Brod celebrates the life and educational legacy of Komenský, the “Teacher of Nations,” through exhibitions, manuscripts, and programs that highlight his enduring influence on modern learning.

Museum of Saving (Turin, Italy)
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The Museum of Saving in Turin uses interactive exhibits, games and workshops to make financial education engaging and accessible for visitors of all ages.

Rua dos Correeiros Archaeological Site (Lisbon, NL)
2023 – Candidate
The Rua dos Correeiros Archaeological Site in Lisbon presents over 2,500 years of urban history, preserved underground in the city’s Baixa district.

The Union of Tbilisi Municipal Museums (Tbilisi, GE)
2023 – Candidate
The Union of Tbilisi Municipal Museums unites nine memorial and thematic museums dedicated to Georgia’s cultural heritage, combining preservation with modern educational and social roles.

Xenokrateion Archaeological Museum of the Sacred Town of Messolonghi (Messolonghi, GR)
2023 – Candidate
The Xenokrateion Archaeological Museum, housed in a restored 19th-century school building, presents over 1,200 artefacts from Aitoloakarnania spanning 100,000 B.C. to the 3rd century A.D., showcasing local heritage within a modern museological framework.

ZOOM Children’s Museum, Vienna
2023 – Candidate
The ZOOM Children’s Museum in Vienna is an inclusive, child-focused space where hands-on exhibitions, workshops, and a unique participatory digital collection foster creativity, curiosity, and lifelong learning.
