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EMA NEWSLETTER – WINTER ISSUE – 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.

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30/03/2023
Wim van der Weiden presenting book

Interview with Wim van der Weiden

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.

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01/03/2023

National Museum Reports 2022

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

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27/02/2023

EMA NEWSLETTER – AUTUMN ISSUE – 2022

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.

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23/10/2022

Education in Museums & Heritage

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

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16/10/2022

Routledge Handbook on Education in Museums and Heritage

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.

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16/10/2022

EMA Awards 2022 winners announced

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

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10/09/2022

A museum is …

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…

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06/09/2022

The EMA Prize Winner Announced

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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02/09/2022

‘El Lenguaje Museogràfico’ a Review

EMA Scientific Director Massimo Negri introduces the book “El Lenguaje Museogràfico” by Guillermo Fernàndez. ‘A short handbook introducing to the knowledge and the use of the fascinating language of 21st century.’ […]

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26/06/2022

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