The European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) organised by the European Museum Forum (EMF), has been presented this year for the 37th time, with the 2014 Award Ceremony hosted by the Art Museum of Estonia in Tallinn.
The results of the 2014 awards are as follows :
Main Award
The European Museum of the Year Award 2014 goes to the
Museum of Innocence, Istanbul, Turkey.
The Museum of Innocence can be seen simply as a historical museum of Istanbul life in the second half of 20th century. It is also, however, a museum created by writer Orhan Pamuk as an integral, object-based version of the fictional love story of his novel of the same name. The Museum of Innocence is meant as a small and personal, local and sustainable model for new museum development. The Museum of Innocence inspires and establishes innovative, new paradigms for the museum sector. This museum fulfils to the highest degree the notion of “public quality”, from the point of view both of heritage and of the public.
The museum has received a trophy: The Egg by Henry Moore, which it will keep for one year.
Special Commendations
The following museums have received Special Commendations from the EMYA 2014 Judging Panel:
Lennusadam, Estonian Maritime Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
For the impressive maritime atmosphere with spectacular, theatrical exhibition design beautifully integrated into the building and for the evident central position of the visitor at the heart of the online experience which allows them to download information whilst walking through the exhibition.
Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
For creating a modern and innovative museum offering dynamic exhibition continuity and a permanent platform for the promotion of European and global cultural knowledge and multi-layered intercultural dialogue.
Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, A Coruña, Spain
For its ability to communicate scientific and technical concepts in an inspiring way and for its strong commitment to social responsibility in preserving the technical, industrial and scientific heritage of Spain and Galicia.
Museo Occidens / Catedral de Pamplona, Spain
For the outstanding way in which it presents the values that underpin the civilization of the “West” and challenges us to rethink our collective future, and our concepts of democracy, solidarity, justice, peace and freedom.
Kazerne Dossin – Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium
and
Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial, Germany
A joint special commendation goes to these two museums for their courage in opening up their institutions to the future, and seeking new “ownership” relationships, within the context of the Second World War. Both these museum memorials – by way of their ideas – have the potential to influence, professionally, their genre of museums.
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Das GrazMuseum hat es in die engere Auswahl geschafft. Mit der Dauerausstellung 360GRAZ/Die Stadt von allen Zeiten ist das GrazMuseum (vormals stadtmuseumgraz) im Oktober 2012 neu eröffnet worden. Diese Neupositionierung als innovative Kulturstätte erfüllte die Kriterien des European Museum Forum - das GrazMuseum wurde von dem Gremium für Europas renommiertesten und ältesten Museumspreis, den European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA), nominiert.
Liste der Nominierungen siehe Download.
