European Museum Academy (EMA) announces<\/p>\n
FINALISTS FOR THE 2020\/21 EUROPEAN MUSEUM ACADEMY AWARDS:
\nLuigi Micheletti Award
\n\u2022 Estonian Maritime Museum (Fat Margaret), Tallinn, Estonia
\n\u2022 Futurium, Berlin, Germany
\n\u2022 Textile Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
\nDASA Award
\n\u2022 Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
\n\u2022 National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania
\n\u2022 Stapferhaus, Lenzburg, Switzerland
\nArt Museum Award
\n\u2022 Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Craft and Design, Kolding, Denmark
\n\u2022 Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
\n\u2022 Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow, United Kingdom<\/p>\n
On September 18 the winners of three different Awards by the European Museum Academy (EMA) were announced: the Luigi Micheletti Award 2020\/21, the DASA Award 2020\/21 and the first Art Museum Award 2021. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, the Award ceremony
\nwas broadcast online via the European Museum Academy website.
\nThe Covid-19 pandemic had a huge effect worldwide on the cultural heritage sector. The judging visits to candidates for the Luigi Micheletti and DASA Awards have therefore been cancelled for the last two years and have been replaced by online visits and interviews. In 2021 EMA launched the Art Museum Award, a new annual award specifically designed for art museums and galleries throughout Europe, dedicated to honour and highlight museum projects that work with art in an innovative, pioneering and creative way in order to address or respond to current social issues that are a major challenge to our contemporary society.
\nAndreja Rihter, EMA President, said: \u201cSadly, the jurors for all three Awards were not able to visit
\ncandidates personally and online interviews took place earlier this year. We found it inspiring that so
\nmany museums had managed to increase their online offers to their visitors and had found ingenious
\nways to publicise their activities in other ways.\u201d
\nTHE LUIGI MICHELETTI AWARD goes to Futurium, located in the new Forum in the centre of Berlin
\namong government buildings and near the central railway station. Its first director was Reinhold
\nLeinfelder who wanted to build a museum of the archaeology of the future, based on the proposition
\nthat future generations should be able to develop freely and should not continue to run into problems
\nduring their lifetime. This concept was developed into Futurium, in which holistic, interdisciplinary,
\ninternational and participatory work is carried out and communicated widely. In the Exhibition visitors
\nare confronted and invited to interact with ideas and visions of the future in three \u2018Thinking Spaces\u2019:
\nNature, Human, Technology. In the Forum, throughout the museum, people can exchange ideas
\nabout future topics. Visitors get a wristband to be used at points in the exhibition, giving them the
\nopportunity to position themselves with regard to the hot issues.
\nTHE DASA AWARD this year goes to The National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest.
\nThe museum dates from 1957 and was established in the communist era. With its dedicated and
\nprofessional management, it developed into an archive museum with interesting collections of
\nhistorical and current literature from authors in Romania and those living abroad. Today it is a
\nheritage research facility as well as a public space open to visitors. Specific programmes are
\narranged for school classes and others mostly in higher education. The museum has a
\ncomprehensive programme, responding to current issues in Romanian society, including the Romany
\npeople, the LGBTQ community, female writers, and the Jewish theatre, with the aim of broadening its
\naudience base and involving visitors actively. As part of its mission to make the wealth of Romanian
\nliterature known throughout the world, projects are arranged in co-operation with organisations,
\nincluding the British Council, the Centre Pompidou and the Norwegian government.
\nTHE ART MUSEUM AWARD was presented to Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Craft and
\nDesign, Kolding, Denmark. The museum is in a large historic park sloping down towards the fjord.
\n80.000-100.000 visitors come to Trapholt each year, 50% from the region, 20% from Copenhagen.
\nThe museum has an exhibition area of 3.000 m\u00b2, in which special exhibitions are displayed in addition
\nto a sculpture park and permanent exhibitions on the painter Richard Mortensen and the designer
\nArne Jacobsen (Kubeflex House). Trapholt attracts more than twice as many visitors without middleor
\nhigher education compared to other art museums. Its mission is to develop a platform for
\nunderstanding the past, reflecting and discussing the present and pointing into the future, with
\nreference to contemporary art, craft and design. The vision is to create a museum community where
\ncitizens and audiences engage in contemporary topics through artistic questions, craft materiality and
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