We regularly produce newsletters. We launch awards, organise award ceremonies, develop and co-sponsor courses, and publish articles and essays. This is the central place where to find out what’s going on.
EMA continues interviewing experts in their field. For our current issue we have been speaking to Wim van der Weiden, Board member and past Chairman of EMA about his career, experiences, role in EMA, the awards and advice to colleagues.
This is the fifth edition of the EMA European Museum Report. It is based on reports from the representatives of the Academy around Europe, who have simply been asked: ‘How were museums doing in 2022 and what is going on?’ The simplicity and the broadness of the question give freedom
The Živa Award at the same time collects interesting experiences and makes possible to share them at the transnational level. Encourages competition in order to increase the number of museums which can do better for our societies.
Museums in Short awards are presented to institutions, authors or producers who use videos to enhance museum communication and engage audiences. Projects may include documentaries, animations, trailers and visual installations.
The Children in Museums Award values creativity and innovation and considers how an exhibition or programme can change the course of museum thinking or museum practice. Closing date: 15 March.
The Art Museum Award is dedicated to museum projects which focus on art in an innovative, pioneering, and creative way, addressing current social issues. It is an annual event.
The DASA Award is dedicated to the quality of learning opportunities in museums. The award is supported bt DASA Working World Exhibition in Dortmund. Closing date: 1 april 2023
History-Telling, based upon storytelling, is key for museums in their attempt to make temporal sense. The Luigi Micheletti Award is for museums that convey a compelling narrative via their exhibition – at the service of society. Closing date: 1 April 2023.
Participating in the European Museum Academy awards, such as the Micheletti Award, the Art Museum Award and the DASA Award, increases your museum’s visibility and networking opportunities. The new round of submissions, reviewed by qualified judges is now open. You can apply until April 1, 2023.
EMA, a dynamic and forward-looking organisation to stimulate innovative thinking in European museums, publishes details of its current activities in an occasional Newsletter. Its Press Releases will continue to focus on individual announcements and events. Read more on awards, activities, publications, and events.
The Archipelago Museum in Denmark, a 2022 Luigi Micheletti Award nominee, went through a transformation. Director Peter Thor Andersen tells how a typical local museum has changed into a new museum concept.
EDUCATION IN MUSEUMS & HERITAGE This is a uniquely innovative and multidisciplinary programme that equips the next generation of museum and heritage professionals with the ability to engage with the various contexts (cultural, economic, political) that they will encounter and which are needed for the 21st century. The programme includes
Attitudes towards museum education and museum educators have evolved over recent years, with both now central to the development of policies, practices, and research for successful engagement. Museum Education is now a field of study in its own right, rather than a strand of Museum Studies.
EMA Director, Dr. Henrik Zipsane, presented this paper at the Association of European Open Air Museums Conference in September. He tells us how open air museums are efficient places for implementing sustainable development goals, by taking possible obstacles into consideration.
Tonight, the winners of three different Awards by the European Museum Academy (EMA) were announced: the Luigi Micheletti Award 2022, the DASA Award 2022 and the Art Museum Award 2022. The Awards ceremony took place at MUDAM-Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, following the annual EMA conference, which was held
Tonight in Luxembourg at a ceremony attended by HRH The Princess Sibilla de Luxembourg, the Children in Museums Award 2022 winners were announced!
ICOM announced the new museum definition replacing the one in force since 2007. The process was not alien to controversy, let alone resignations, with a double-barrel definition proposed in 2019 sent back to the drawing board for various reasons…
For only the fourth time in its history the EMA Board has selected an EMA Prize winner: I-On, an overall project between six cultural history museums and one university from seven European countries.
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