Network
Our network
Experts
A group of experienced experts and advisers, active in various sectors of the museum and heritage world, is always within our reach. They have experience in the field, European funding programmes, and national and local development projects. This network is reinforced by a group of national representatives and honorary commissioners, and supported by our own team of project- and communications officers.
These experts contribute to the development of the Academy in terms of researching, lecturing, training, writing, consulting etc. In this way, EMA benefits of a wide range of skills developed during the years and is able to offer a comprehensive variety of services based on a sound knowledge of museums and heritage issues. We are happy to welcome new experts willing to reinforce our group on a regular basis.
Lars Amréus – Director General, Swedish Maritime and Transport Museums, Stockholm (SE)
Mladen Banjac – Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art of Republika Srpska, (MOCARS), Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Arno van Berge Henegouwen – Formerly curator at Museon, The Hague (NL)
Brynja Björk Birgisdóttir – Director, Sverresborg Trøndelag Folk Museum, Trondheim (NO)
Thomas Brune – Former Head German Ethnology, Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart (DE)
Tijana Palkovijević Bujarski – Gallery of Matica srpska, Novi Sad (RS)
René Capovin – The Micheletti Foundation, Brescia (IT)
Helen Charman – Director, Young V&A, London (UK)
Jill Cousins – Former Director, The Hunt Museum, Limerick (IE)
Laura Diamanti – Multimedia Editor, Master in Museum Communication, IULM University Milan, Milan (IT)
Guido Fackler – Professor in Museology,
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg (DE)
Samuel Gallacher – Director, Scottish Historic Buildings Trust, Edinburgh (UK)
John Patrick Greene, Greene Associates, Chester-le-Street (UK)
Karen Holdaway Grøn, Director, Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Craft and Design, Kolding (DK)
Andreja Hribernik – Director, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT)
Mirela Iancu – Deputy Director, ASTRA Museum, Sibiu (RO)
Gregor Isenbort – Director, DASA Arbeitswelt Ausstellung, Dortmund (DE)
Nils M Jensen – Director, Organisationen Danske Museer ODM, Copenhagen (DK)
Barbara Karl – Head of Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of Military History,
Vienna (A)
Mette Kronborg Vedel Kiilerich – Head of children and learning, Museum Odense (DK)
Louisa Leventis – Art Historian-Museologist, Director, Leventis Foundation (UK)
Edouard de Loubrie – Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille (FR)
Laura Longo – DAIS, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Venice (IT)
François Mairesse – Département de Médiation Culturelle, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (FR)
Piotr Majewski – Department of Culture Management, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw (PL)
Cristina Menegazzi – International Expert Culture and Heritage, Paris, (FR)
Delphine Munro – Head of Arts & Culture, European Investment Bank Institute, Luxemburg (LU)
Ann Nicholls – Museum researcher, Bristol (UK)
Virgil Stefan Nitulescu – Manager, National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest (RO)
Kathrin Pabst – Vest-Agder Museum/Vest-Agder-Museet IKS, Kristiansand (NO)
Georgios Papaioannou – Athens (GR)
Margherita Sani – Formerly Istituto Beni Culturali della Regione Emilia Romagna, Bologna (IT)
Hermann Schäfer – Founding President, Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. Former Vice Minister of Culture in Germany (DE)
Bernhart Schwenk – Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (DE)
HRH Sibilla de Luxembourg – Chairperson Advisory Board Guggenheim Venice, Luxembourg (LU)
Bojana Rogelj Skafar – Director, Slovene Ethnographical Museum, Ljubljana (SI)
Jarosław Suchan – Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków (PL)
Herman Tibosch, Director, Jan Cunen Museum, Oss (NL)
Elia Vlachou – Head of Projects, Development and Networking, MIET – Cultural Foundation of the National Bank, Athens (GR)
Danièle Wagener – Honorary Director, Les 2 Musées de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
Honorary Commissioners
Griet Claerhout, Berchem, Belgium
Camila González Gou, Barcelona, Spain
Christopher Grayson, Strasbourg, France
Gerhard Kilger, Wilhelmsfeld, Germany
Lola Mitjans, Barcelona, Spain
Franco Niccolucci, Prato, Italy
Ioanna Papantoniou, Nafplion, Greece
Jana Soucková, Prague, Czech Republic
National Representatives
Albania
– Dorian Koçi, Director, National Historical Museum of Albania, Tirana.
Austria
– Nikola Kroath, Head of Learning, KIMUS Kindermuseum Gaz, FRida & freD, Graz
Belgium
– Hilde Schoefs, Conservator, Open Air Museum Bokrijk, Genk
Bulgaria
– Nikolay Nenov, Director, Rousse Regional Museum of History, Rousse
Croatia –
Lidija Nikočević, Director, Ethnographic Museum of Istria, Pazin
Cyprus
– Despina Georghiou Hadjinicolaou, Administrative Director, A.G. Gallery, Nicosia
Czech Republic –
Martina Lehmannova, Managing Director, ICOM Czech Republic – ICOM Prague 2022, Brno
Denmark
– Martin Brandt Djupdræt, Senior Curator, Den Gamle By, Aarhus
Estonia
– Triin Vaaro, Director, Tartu Toy Museum, Tartu
Finland
– Johanna Enqvist, Assistant Professor (Museology), University of Jyväskylä
France
– Samuel Cordier, Conservateur du Patrimoine, Chef d’Etablissement, Musée Zoologique, Strasbourg
Georgia
– Lana Karaia, Chair, ICOM Georgia and Head of Museum of Tbilisi State Academy of Art
Georgia, Nana Meparishvili, Chair ICOM-ICAMT, Tbilisi
Germany – Marion Grether, Head of Deutsches Museum Nürnberg – das Zukunftsmuseum
Dietmar Osses, Deputy Head/Head of Exhibitions, Ruhr Museum, Essen
Greece –
Nadia Macha, Assistant Professor of Folklore, Democritus University of Thrace, Glyfada
Hungary
– Zsolt Sári, Deputy Director General, Skanzen Hungarian Open Air Museum, Szentendre
Iceland
– Anita Elefsen, Curator, The Herring Era Museum, Siglufjördur
Ireland
– Marie Bourke, Assessor, Museum Standards Programme Ireland, Dublin
Italy –
Irene Innocente, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Latvia
– Agrita Ozola, Director, Tukums Museum, Tukums
Lithuania
– Gita Šapranauškaité, Director, Lithuanian Open-Air Museum, Rumšiškés
Luxembourg –
Julia Kohl, Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg
Malta
– Sandro Debono, Visiting Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Valletta
Moldova
– Elena Plosnita, Principal Researcher, National Museum of History of Moldova, Chisinau
Montenegro –
Isidora Kovačević, Head of Njegoš’s Museum, Cetinge
Netherlands
– Hans Dautzenberg, Corporate Secretary, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
North Macedonia
– Gordan Nikolov, Curator Adviser, Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje
Norway
– Hanna Mellemsether, Stiklestad National Cultural Centre, Verdal
Poland
– Joanna Grzonkowsa, Head of Museums Organization Department,
National Institute for Museums, Warsaw
Portugal –
Emilia Ferreira, Director, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Portugal – Paulo Gama Mota, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra
Romania
– Valer Rus, Manager, Romanian National Anthem Museum, Braşov
Serbia
– Lidija Milasinović, Director of the National Museum of Kikinda
Slovakia
– Zuzana Palicová, Bratislava City Museum, Bratislava
Slovenia
– Blaž Vurnik, Head of Curators, Museum and Galleries of Slovenia, City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
Spain
– Carmen Valdez Sagüés, Técnico Superior de Actividades Artísticas, Museo de Navarra, Pamplona
Sweden
– Anna Hansen, Head of Culture, Landskrona Municipality
Switzerland
– Christian Hörack, Project leader, CERAMICA CH, Basel
Republic of Turkey
– Ahmet Ö. Erdönmez, Secretary General, Bursa Culture Art and Tourism Foundation, Bursa
Republic of Turkey – Dilek Yildiz Karakaş, Director, Museums Branch of the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, Bursa
Ukraine
– Anastasiia Haidukevych, Head of Museum Department, Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Kyiv
; Yuliya Lytvynets, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
United Kingdom
– Tim Bryan, Director of the Brunel Institute, SS Great Britain, Bristol
Our Partners
EMA operates a Partnership Scheme which helps to support our activities and contributes to the developments of common projects. EMA is very grateful to all these institutions and individuals for their support and active cooperation.
Governments
The visiting of Award candidates in Germany and The Netherlands is made possible respectively by the Deutscher Museumsbund and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
EMA is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg.
Corporate, Associate and Founding Partners
ASTRA, National Museum Complex, Sibiu, Romania (Associate)
Event Communications, London, UK (Associate)
Fundación Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona, Spain (Founding)
Gallery 11/07/95, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Associate)
Glasgow Life, Glasgow , UK (Founding)
Istanbul Toy Museum, Turkey (Founding)
IULM University , Milan, Italy
Museu Agbar de les Aigües, Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain (Founding)
Muzeul Bucovinei, Suceava, Romania (Associate)
National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
NCK -The Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity, Östersund, Sweden (Associate)
Riitta Nelimarkka-Seeck, Helsinki, Finland (individual)
TIM, Augsburg, Germany
Trapholt – museum of modern art, craft and design, Kolding, Denmark (Associate)
Workers’ Museum (Arbejdermuseet) in Copenhagen, Denmark (Associate)
Cooperation Agreements
Hungarian Money Museum and Visitor Centre, Budapest, Hungary (Associate)
IULM University of Milan, Italy
Mercis BV, Netherlands
Museum Academy in the Nordic and Baltic Countries
National Institute for Museums and Public Collections in Poland
Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity
Permanent Partnerships
The EMA Foundation develops its programme in partnership with qualified institutions active in the museum field as well as in the cultural heritage sector in general. This cooperation implies different forms of memberships, exchanges of information, production of common documents, publications, lectures, planning of seminars and other events, publications, research projects on a bilateral or multilateral basis.
Our permanent partners are:
DASA Arbeitswelt Ausstelling, Dortmund, Germany
Europa Nostra, The Hague, Netherlands
Europeana Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands
FSK Forum of Slavic Cultures, Lubljana, Slovenia
Luigi Micheletti Foundation, Brescia, Italy
NEMO, Network of European Museum Organisations, Berlin, Germany
NIMOZ, Warsaw, Poland
PASCAL, Learning Cities Networks, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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