European Museum of the Year Award


The European Museum of the Year Award is presented each year by the European Museum Forum under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The EMYA is considered the most important annual award in the European museum sector.

History

The EMYA was founded in 1977 by British journalist Kenneth Hudson, British academic Richard Hoggart, and John Letts, under the auspices of the Council of Europe. It is considered to be the most important award in its sector, being described by the Network of European Museums as "the longest-running and most prestigious museum awards in Europe".
The Fonds de dotation de l’ICOM of the International Council of Museums supports the European Museum of the Year Award.

Awards

Categories

Since 1977, the EMF has presented two main awards:
Three additional prizes were subsequently added to the EMF awards:
The EMF state that the European Museum of the Year is based on:
The EMF state that the Council of Europe Museum Prize is based on:

Judging

Museums in 47 European countries, all members of the Council of Europe, can take part in the competition if they are newly opened or have undergone modernization or expansion in the past three years.

European Museum of the Year winners (1977–)

The following are the winners of the main European Museum of the Year award:
YearImageMuseumLocationCountryShortlist
1977Ironbridge Gorge Museum TrustIronbridge
1978Schloss Rheydt MuseumMönchengladbach
1979:fr:Musée de la Camargue|Museum of the CamargueArles
1980Catharine Convent MuseumUtrecht
1981Peloponnesian Folklore FoundationNafplio
1982Museum of Art and HistorySaint-Denis
1983Museum SarganserlandSargans
1984Zuiderzee MuseumEnkhuizen
1986Museum of Medieval StockholmStockholm
1987Beamish MuseumStanley
1988Brandts MuseumOdense
1989:sv:Sundsvalls museum|Sundsvall MuseumSundsvall
1990Fourmies
1991Leventio MuseumNicosia
1992State Museum of Technology and WorkMannheim
1993Alta MuseumAlta
1994National Museum of DenmarkCopenhagen
1995Olympic MuseumLausanne
1996Museum of the Romanian PeasantBucharest
1997Museum of Anatolian CivilizationsAnkara
1998National Conservation CentreLiverpool
1999French Museum of Playing CardsIssy-les-Moulineaux
2000Guggenheim Museum BilbaoBilbao
2001National Railway MuseumYork
2002Chester Beatty LibraryDublin
2003Victoria and Albert Museum - British GalleriesLondon
2004Archaeological Museum of AlicanteAlicante
2005Netherlands Open Air MuseumArnhem
2006CosmoCaixaBarcelona
2007German Emigration CenterBremerhaven
2008Kumu Art MuseumTallinn
2009Salzburg MuseumSalzburg
2010OzeaneumStralsund
2011Gallo-Roman Museum of TongerenTongeren
2012Medina Azahara MuseumCórdoba
2013Riverside MuseumGlasgow
2014The Museum of InnocenceIstanbul
2015RijksmuseumAmsterdam
2016POLIN Museum of the History of Polish JewsWarsaw
2017Musée d'ethnographie de GenèveGeneva
2018Design MuseumLondon
2019Rijksmuseum BoerhaaveLeiden

Council of Europe Museum Prize winners (1977–)

The following are the winners of the Council of Europe Museum Prize award:
YearImageMuseumLocationCountryShortlist
1977Fundació Joan MiróBarcelona
1978Bryggens MuseumBergen
1979Rüsselsheim am Main
1980Monaghan County MuseumMonaghan
1981Stockholm Music MuseumStockholm
1982Åland MuseumMariehamn
1983Joanneum - The Provincial Museum of StyriaGraz
1984Living Museum of the Canal du CentreThieu
1984National Waterways MuseumEllesmere Port
1987Museum NeuköllnBerlin
1988Bavarian National MuseumMunich
1988Convent of Las Descalzas Reales MuseumMadrid
1989Joods Historisch MuseumAmsterdam
1990Manuel da Maia Museum of WaterLisbon
1991German Salt MuseumLüneburg
1992Argenta Marsh MuseumArgenta, Emilia–Romagna
1993İstanbul Archaeology MuseumsIstanbul
1994Provincial Museum of LaplandRovaniemi
1995Haus der GeschichteBonn
1996Museum of Applied Arts, ViennaVienna
1997Tropenmuseum JuniorAmsterdam
1998Museum Centre on StrelkaKrasnoyarsk
1999Palais des Beaux-Arts de LilleLille
2000In Flanders Fields MuseumYpres
2001Helsinki Theatre MuseumHelsinki
2002BuddenbrookhausLübeck
2003LaténiumHauterive, Neuchâtel
2004Museum of Health CareEdirne
2005Museum of Byzantine CultureThessaloniki
2006Churchill War RoomsLondon
2007International Museum of the ReformationGeneva
2008Svalbard MuseumLongyearbyen
2009Zeeuws MuseumMiddelburg
2010Portimão MuseumPortimão
2012Rautenstrauch-Joest MuseumCologne
2013Museum of LiverpoolLiverpool
2014Baksı MuseumBayburt
2015Museum of European and Mediterranean CivilisationsMarseille
2016European Solidarity CentreGdańsk
2017ACTe MemorialPointe-à-Pitre
2018War Childhood MuseumSarajevo
2019Museum of CommunicationBern

Kenneth Hudson Award winners (2010–)

The following are the winners of the Kenneth Hudson Award:
YearImageMuseumLocationCountryShortlist
2010Museum of Contraception and AbortionVienna
2011Museum of Broken RelationshipsZagreb
2012Glasnevin MuseumDublin
2013Batalha Municipal Community MuseumBatalha
2014Zanis Lipke MemorialRiga
2015International Red Cross and Red Crescent MuseumGeneva
2016MicropiaAmsterdam
2017Museum of the First President of Russia Boris YeltsinYekaterinburg
2018Estonian National MuseumTartu
2019World Museum ViennaVienna

Silletto Prize winners (2011–)

The following are the winners of the Silletto Prize:
YearImageMuseumLocationCountryShortlist
2011WatersnoodmuseumOuwerkerk
2012Tolosa
2013Museum aan de StroomAntwerp
2014Saurer MuseumArbon
2015Guise
2016Vukovar City MuseumVukovar
2017Leiria MuseumLeiria
2018Betina
2019Thorsminde

Portimao Museum Prize winners (2019–)

The following are the winners of the Portimao Museum Prize:
YearImageMuseumLocationCountryShortlist
2019Brunel's SS Great BritainBristol