NEWSLETTER – WINTER ISSUE – 2025
This EMA Newsletter is dedicated to the 2424 EMA Awards, a new book by EMA Chair Karl B. Murr, and the projects in which EMA participates.
EMA publishes details of its current activities in an occasional Newsletter. Its Press Releases will continue to focus on individual announcements and events.
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Dear Members and Friends of the European Museum Academy,
We are happy to welcome you to the latest edition of our Newsletter. We hope that the winter is treating you well.
The EMA Awards, Heritage in Motion Award application period has started and can be applied until 1st of March. Children in Museums Award application period has started and can be applied until 15th of March. The Art Museum Award is postponed the deadline to 31st of March. The official application forms are available on the EMA website. For our current issue we have been speaking to Laura Diamanti about her career, experiences, projects and role in EMA.
In this issue, you’ll also find information about the two major research projects META-MUSEUM and HERITALISE under the European Union Horizon Europe Programme in which EMA will be a partner from the autumn, and a report on Museums in Europe 2024.
We hope you have a great year ahead!
Enjoy reading and warm regards,
Karl B. Murr
Chairman of the Board
CALL FOR THE EMA AWARDS 2025
The European Museum Academy fosters the exchange of ideas and experiences between museum professionals across borders.
The EMA Awards fulfil a signal function. They say: “Look at these museums. See what they realised and learn from their experiences. Because, what they achieved may help you too.”
We show the innovators, the frontrunners, the museums that are worth visiting, the projects and exhibitions that inspire.
Each year, the European Museum Academy acknowledges individuals and organisations that excel in presenting, contextualising, and interpreting art and cultural heritage. Our annual award ceremony puts them on stage.
Closing date is 1 March 2025
For further information
EDUMaH Master Programme: Education in Museums & Heritage (Erasmus Mundus International Master)
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, social, political) that they will encounter and which are needed for the 21st century. The programme includes placements, language learning and a minimum of three mobility periods in Europe.
For further information
INTERVIEW WITH
LAURA DIAMANTI
EMA continues interviewing experts in their field. For our current issue we have been speaking to Laura Diamanti about her career, experiences, projects and role in EMA.
CALL FOR HERITAGE IN MOTION AWARD 2025
New developments in multimedia technology and the importance of audiovisual expressions capture a vital role in making cultural heritage accessible.
The Heritage in Motion Award was founded in 2012 by the joint initiative of the European Museum Academy and Europa Nostra. The Award has a lasting tradition of celebrating the best examples of innovative multimedia and digital projects on cultural heritage in Europe. The first edition was held in 2014, and since the beginning of 2023, the project is managed jointly by European Museum Academy (EMA) and the International Foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures (FSK). The project is led by Massimo Negri – scientific director EMA and Andreja Rihter – director FSK.
This year’s judges: Robin Lutz (coordinator), Mateja Kuka Brkić, Amilcar Vargas.
Applications for Heritage in Motion 2025 can be submitted through the FilmFreeway platform, from March 31th to June 15th, 2025: https://filmfreeway.com/HeritageinMotion
The 2025 Award Ceremony will take place on Friday, September 26th, 2025, at the Money Museum in Budapest (Hungary), providing a unique networking and recognition platform for innovators in the field of heritage.
Participants are welcome to attend the ceremony in Budapest at their own expense.
CALL FOR CHILDREN IN MUSEUMS AWARD 2025
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.
EMA SITUATION FOR MUSEUMS IN EUROPE REPORT 2024
How are museums doing in Europe?
The European Museum Academy Reports on The Museum Temperature by the end of 2024.
The European Museum Academy is proud to present for the seventh year in a row the following more subjective inside views about how museums are doing and what the museums’ current challenges are, be it political, financial, in legislation,
organisational or something else.
We all think we know something about how museums are doing in our own country,
and we know that we can find statistical information produced for specific research
projects and in continuous statistical series from our governments, the European
Union, the Council of Europe and even UNESCO.
But what is going on beneath the numbers? Politically? Financially? Museologically? We would like to thank all our dedicated representatives across Europe who make it possible for our independent network to present this report.
Enjoy reading it!
EDUCATION
IULM Master course: Museology and New Media and Museum Communication (On Line)
Our Master’s course has a unique approach to museology in its most innovative form, especially at a European level. It is carried out in collaboration with the European Museum Academy Foundation (NL) which contributes with its experts and educational resources. Articulated e-learning is the key point: the online modules also offer students abroad the opportunity to take part in this course under careful tutoring. The programme is designed for those interested in acquiring skills in contemporary museology and the interconnections between museum and heritage, as well as in new media and museum communication.
For further information
2025 EMA ANNUAL PROGRAMME
2024 was a year with normal business and activities for the European Museum Academy. But it was also the first year without our friend, mentor and founding colleague Wim van der Weiden among us. 2024 became a year where we gathered new strength needed for bringing our business forward.
Read more
The closing date for applications is 15 March 2025
PROJECTS
The META MUSEUM Project
The European Museum Academy is partner in a new research project under the European Union programme Horizon Europe.
META- MUSEUM stands for “Moving Emotions towards confidence in the Transformative Appropriation for a Meaningful Understanding of cultural heritage: a neuroScientific approach to European Museums”.
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