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European Museum Forum Annual Assembly and European Museum of the Year Award 2012 Ceremony
Municipal Museum of Penafiel, Portugal
16-19 May 2012
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Letter of invitation (pdf, 1Mb)
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The Council of Europe Museum Prize 2012 goes to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum – Kulturen der Welt (Cultures of the World) in Cologne, Germany.
The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum is a century-old institution that has recently moved to a new building and developed a groundbreaking new exhibition on World Cultures. Looking for a new mode of presenting its rich collections, the museum has rejected the traditional geography-based scheme and opted for an issue-based presentation. As a result, new contents, interpretation and design solutions have been developed that open new possibilities and set a new paradigm for the museums of anthropology and ethnology worldwide.
As the Judges have stressed, ‘the museum demonstrates its commitment to serve its multicultural public – adults and children alike – both in its exhibitions and in numerous festivals and educational activities. All visitors will find something to admire and reflect upon. The museum serves as a window on world cultures but also, and predominantly, describes how cultures are formed and how they perceive one another, through exposure to one another. The museum holds up a mirror to prejudice and takes its visitors on a journey, which is simultaneously beautiful, exciting, clever and sophisticated. The museum maintains an open and inclusive policy, aimed at bridging cultures and transcending social and political borders. Its creative use of cutting-edge information and communication technology establishes the conditions necessary to ensure access by the widest public possible’.
The Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded since 1977, in collaboration between the Council of Europe and the European Museum Forum. Museums of any type and size from 47 countries, members of the Council of Europe, are eligible for the prize. Winner receives a trophy, a bronze statuette, La femme aux beaux seins by Joan Miró, which stays with the museum for a year.
The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum was one of 59 museums considered by the Judging Panel for the 2012 European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA), an award scheme operated by the European Museum Forum. According to the procedure, this museum was included in a short list of three candidates submitted by the EMYA Judging Panel to the Committee on Culture, Science and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the Committee made the final decision.
Winner of 2012 European Museum of the Year Award, as well as winners of other awards and prizes associated with EMYA, will be announced at the EMYA Ceremony, which is to be held as part of the Assembly of European Museum Forum in Penafiel, Portugal, on 16–19 May 2012.
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credit: Filip Beusan
Museum of Contraception and Abortion, Vienna (www.muvs.org), the first winner of Kenneth Hudson Award established by the European Museum Forum in 2010, was named as best presenter of an award-winning project at the Best in Heritage conference held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on 22–24 September 2011.
The Best in Heritage annual conference (www.thebestinheritage.com) conceived as a parade of museum and heritage award winners from all over the world, has been held in Dubrovnik since 2001. The programme of the conference’s 10th edition included presentations of 21 award-winning projects.
Other EMYA/Council of Europe award winners presented in Dubrovnik this year were: Museum of Portimão, Portugal, winner of the Council of Europe Museum Prize 2010; Ozeaneum in Stralsund, Germany, winner of the European Museum of the Year Award 2010; and Tampere 1918: Museum of Finnish Civil War, Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland, that has received a Special Commendation of the EMYA Judging Panel in 2011.
The Tampere Museum was also presented as a case study at Mnemosophia, the post-conference event focused on the theme of Difficult Heritage and held in the Inter University Centre Dubrovnik on 25 September 2011.
Dr Christian Fiala, Founder and Director of the Museum of Contraception and Abortion, will be next speaking at The Best in Heritage - Excellence Club held in the framework of EXPONATEC – Cologne, International Trade Fair for Museum, Conservation and Heritage, on 16–18 November 2011 (www.exponatec.de). Another speaker there is Peter Husty from Salzburg Museum, Austria, winner of the 2009 European Museum of the Year Award.
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credit: German Emigration Center / Jan Meier
Winner of the European Museum of the Year Award 2011
Gallo-Romeins Museum, Tongeren, Belgium
Kenneth Hudson Award
Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb, Croatia
Silletto Prize
Watersnoodmuseum, Owerkerk, Netherlands
Special Commendations (in alphabetical order)
British Music Experience, London, UK,
Douro Museum, Peso da Regua, Portugal,
Museum of the Artist and Story-Teller Stepan Pisakhov, Arkhangelsk, Russia,
Museo Memoria de Andalucia, Granada, Spain,
Schiller National Museum in Marbach, Germany
Tampere 1918 – Museum of Finnish Civil War, Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland.
Press-release (pdf)
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18-21 May 2011
Bremerhaven, Germany
German Emigration Center
Programme (pdf)
Photos
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