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In 2021 for the second time the European Museum Academy invited students on master level programmes to participate in our efforts to stimulate further development of the museum sector in Europe. We congratulate Anastasia Serikova from the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture as the winner in the competition for
The European co-operation project “MOI! Museums of Impact” is ready to pilot its self-evaluation framework in selected museums to test the framework’s usability. The framework is intended as a development tool for museums that want to evaluate and then develop their activities and organisation with the aim of increasing their
Project DOORS invites small and medium-size museums across Europe to submit digital pilot proposals for a two-stage incubation programme. The deadline for application submission is 13.02.2022, 23:59 CET.
The SoPHIA project had its final conference at Roma Tre University in Rome 17-18 December 21. The EU funded project was funded under the Horizon 2020 programme for 24 months and focused on issue of how to understand and assess impact of various interventions on cultural heritage.
On Friday, November 12, 2021 in an online ceremony during the Hands On! Conference in Vienna the results of the 2021 Children in Museums Award were announced. The judges were delighted to give the Award to the Dutch Open Air Museum’s Restart programme.
Announcement from the European Museum Academy In 2020 for the first time The European Museum Academy invited students on master level programmes to participate in our efforts to stimulate further development of the museum sector in Europe. Each of the 75+ European Universities were invited to contribute with one master
Živa Award Is Alive – Soon in the European Capital of CultureThe international foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures is getting ready for the 7th award ceremony for Živa Award for the best Slavic museum and heritage site. The award ceremony with international conference will take place in Belgrade and Novi
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in Sydney is adopting the Viewphone concept from the Dutch LAM museum. The Viewphone, offers one-to-one phone calls with museum staff.
Can we develop the SoPHIA model on cultural heritage impact assessment to make cultural heritage management become better at anticipating changing needs and benefits of heritage, so that they can inform decisions made today for the future? This is a question that the Center for Applied Heritage at Linnaeus University
It is difficult to imagine how we functioned before computers, emails and the internet. In 1975 Kenneth Hudson and Ann Nicholls produced the first edition of The Directory of Museums, published by Macmillan (864 pp), relying solely for their research on the worldwide postal system and 35,000 individual cards on which
WINNERS THE 2020/2021 EUROPEAN MUSEUM ACADEMY AWARDS On Saturday 18 September the winners of three Awards by the European Museum Academy (EMA) were announced during an online ceremony hosted by EMA Chairman Karl Borromäus Murr in the Drents Museum (Assen, the Netherlands). Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the judging visits to candidates
OBITUARY GRAZIANO Our colleague and friend Graziano Campanini, Director of the Museum of Health in Bologna, passed away on August 20th. His funeral was held in Pieve di Cento (Bologna), the little town to which he has dedicated so many energies in the cultural field. His loss happened just two
Sofia Elamson received her Master’s degree from the University of South-East Norway, where she developed her thesis side by side with the Erasmus+ project Heritage Training for Young Adults (HETYA). The HETYA project as well as the thesis explored the museum institution as an arena for inclusive growth and lifelong
We present a chronological list of all EMA award winners from 1996 to 2021. The influence of EMA as an organisation of fostering quality in museums is truly pan-European.
NEWS FROM PARTNERS MyMicroGallery Via Giovanni Boccaccio 24,20123 MILANOwww.mymicrogallery.com RIITTA NELIMARKKA HASSUNACurated by Stefania CarrozziniOpening: Thursday September 23th, 2021 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm MyMicroGallery Via Giovanni Boccaccio 2420123 Milano24.09.2021 – 12.10.2021By appointment MyMicroGallery is pleased to announce “Hassuna”, a solo exhibition by the Finnish artist Riitta Nelimarkka curated by Stefania Carrozzini.Inspiring Riitta
INTERVIEW WITH ANNEMIES BROEKGAARDEN EMA continues asking questions to museum specialists. In this issue, Hazal Sahin from EMA has interviewed Annemies Broekgaarden who is Head Public and Education at the Rijksmuseum. She is also one of EMA’s advisers and co-supervisor of the Children in Museums Award, with interests in accessibility, the role of museums in society, audiences, learning programmes. First of all, thank
Every year, the European Museum Academy organizes various Awards for museums. The winners of three Awards has been presented on Saturday 18 September 2021, 20:00 CEST – the first Art Museum Award 2021, the DASA Award 2020/21, and the Luigi Micheletti Award 2020/21. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, the
On Saturday 18, 2021, the winners of the three different Awards by the European Museum Academy, the Luigi Micheletti Award 2020-21, the DASA Award 2020-21, and the Art Museum Award 2021 have been announced. Here are the press releases.
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