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European Museum of the Year Award THE CANDIDATES | 2021 Innovation in European Museums European Museum of the Year Award THE CANDIDATES | 2021 Innovation in European Museums EMF Board of Trustees 2021 EMF Jury 2021 ■ Jette Sandahl, Denmark (Chair) ■ Marlen Mouliou, (ex officio) (Chair, EMYA Jury ■ Mark O’Neill, United Kingdom (Chair – until ■ Bernadette Lynch, United Kingdom December 2020) Writer, lecturer, and researcher in museum theory ■ David Anderson, OBE, United Kingdom – from December 2020), Assistant Professor of Associate Professor, College of Arts, University of and practice Director, National Museums of Wales (until May Museology, National and Kapodistrian University of Glasgow 2020) Athens ■ Linda Mol, The Netherlands ■ Kimmo Antila, Finland (until December 2020) Head of Audience Engagement, Teylers Museum ■ Kimmo Antila, Finland ■ Mark O’Neill, United Kingdom (ex officio, Chair of Director, Finnish Postal Museum, Tampere Director, Finnish Postal Museum, Tampere (from ■ Marlen Mouliou, Greece (Chair – from EMYA Jury – until December 2020) December 2020) January 2020) ■ Christophe Dufour, Switzerland Assistant Professor of Museology, National and ■ Joan Roca i Albert, Spain Former Director, Muséum d’histoire naturelle de ■ Jonas Dahl, Sweden Kapodistrian University of Athens Neuchâtel Senior Advisor, Statement Public Affairs (Treasurer) Director, Barcelona City History Museum (MUHBA) ■ Adriana Munoz, Sweden (from January 2020) ■ Atle Faye, Norway ■ Sharon Heal, United Kingdom Curator, National Museums of World Culture, Communication Team Manager, Oslo Academy of the Director, Museums Association (from May 2020: ■ Benedetta Tiana, United Kingdom Gothenburg Arts Company Secretary) Principal, BT Museum Consultancy (until May 2020) ■ Joan Roca i Albert, Spain (until December 2020) ■ ■ Metka Fujs, Slovenia Peter Keller, Austria (ex officio) ■ Director, Barcelona City History Museum (MUHBA) Jouetta Van Der Ploeg, The Netherlands Historian, Museum Councillor, Director, Pomurje Director General, International Council of Museums Former Head of Exhibitions, Museum De Voorde, Museum Murska Sobota ■ Jahangir Selimkhanov, Azerbaijan (ICOM) Head of International Relations, Azerbaijan National former Director, Stadsmuseum Zoetermeer ■ Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Poland (until ■ Vesna Marjanovic, Serbia Conservatory December 2020) Culture and Media Policies Advisor, Centre for ■ Maria Cristina Vannini, Italy Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, ■ Dina Sorokina, Russian Federation Democracy Foundation Principal, soluzionimuseali-ims (until May 2020) POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Director, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Museum (Yeltsin Warsaw Center), Yekaterinburg Portimão Partnership ■ José Gameiro, Portugal (Partnership Liaison) ■ Pedro Branco, Portugal (EMF Administrator) EMF National Correspondents 2021 National Correspondents provide a network of information between museums throughout Europe. They CZECH REPUBLIC GERMANY welcome news of developments and activities that may be conveyed to a wider audience through the European ■ Museum Forum. Jana Souckova ■ Jörg Busch Czech Committee of the Blue Shield, Czech Managing Director, Vulkanpark GmbH Committee for UNESCO [email protected] [email protected] ALBANIA ■ Pieter Van der Gheynst GREECE Director, Brussels Museums DENMARK ■ Ilirjan Gjipali [email protected] ■ Anna Vogli Head, Department of Prehistory, Institute for ■ Ole Winther Head, PR, S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. Archaeology ■ Head, Museum Department, Danish Agency for Sofie Wilder [email protected] Culture [email protected] Director, Museums of Turnhout [email protected] ■ Yiannis Markakis [email protected] Director, Cretan Open-Air Museum ‘Lychnostatis’ ARMENIA ESTONIA [email protected] BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ■ Marine Mkrtchyan ■ Mariann Raisma HUNGARY Secretary, ICOM Armenia ■ Alma Leka Director, University of Tartu Museum [email protected] [email protected] Museum advisor, Historical Museum of Bosnia and ■ Zsuzsanna Batari Herzegovina Secretary, Scientific Affairs, Hungarian Open Air FINLAND AUSTRIA Secretary, ICOM Bosnia and Herzegovina Museum, Szentendre ■ Jari Harju [email protected] ■ [email protected] Stefania Pitscheider Soroperra Curator, Helsinki City Museum Director, Frauenmuseum Hittisau [email protected] ICELAND [email protected] BULGARIA ■ FRANCE Guðbrandur Benediktsson ■ Stavri Nikolov Director, Reykjavik Museum AZERBAIJAN Founding Director, Digital Spaces Living Lab (DSLL) ■ Benoît de L’Estoile [email protected] Professeur attaché en anthropologie politique, École ■ Firahnaz Musayeva [email protected] | stavri.nikolov@ normale supérieure, Paris gmail.com REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Head, International Relations and Innovation [email protected] Department, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum ■ Hugh Maguire ■ Todor Petov ■ Vincent Guichard [email protected] Cultural Heritage Advisor Assistant Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences Director General, Bibracte EPPC [email protected] [email protected] ■ Roya Taghieva and Arts, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", Director, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum Director, My Museum Foundation GEORGIA ITALY [email protected] [email protected] ■ Lana Karaia ■ Marianella Pucci ICOM Georgia Mediator BELGIUM CROATIA [email protected] [email protected] ■ ■ Alexandre Chevalier Zvjezdana Antos ■ Nino Azmaiparashvili ■ Michele Trimarchi ICOM Belgique Wallonie-Bruxelles Senior Curator, Ethnographic Museum Zagreb Journalist Professor of Cultural Economy, University of Bologna [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ■ Sara Minotti NORTH MACEDONIA ■ Sofya Averchenkova UKRAINE Consultant, former EMF Administrator Institute for Cultural Policy ■ Rubinco Belceski [email protected] ■ Kateryna Smagliy Institution for Protection of Monuments of Culture [email protected] Former Director, Kennan Institute Kyiv Office and Museums [email protected] LATVIA SERBIA [email protected] ■ Ineta Zelca Sīmansone UNITED KINGDOM ■ Mila Popović-Živančević Director, Think Tank Creative Museum NORWAY Rector, Alfa BK Univerzitet, Belgrade ■ Heledd Fychan [email protected] ■ Liv Ramskjaer [email protected] Head, Policy and Public Affairs, National Secretary General, Norwegian Museum Association Museum Wales LIECHTENSTEIN ■ Nikola Krstovic [email protected] [email protected] Assistant Professor, University of Belgrade ■ Rainer Vollkommer Director, Liechtenstein National Museum POLAND [email protected] [email protected] ■ Dominika Mroczkowska-Rusiniak PORTUGAL SLOVENIA National Institute for Museums and Public Collections MALTA ■ Pedro Branco [email protected] ■ Bojana Rogelj Skafar Administrator, EMF Office ■ Romina Delia Museum Councillor, Slovene Ethnographic Museum [email protected] PORTUGAL Secretary General, ICOM Malta [email protected] [email protected] ■ João Neto Associação Portuguesa de Museologia (APOM) SPAIN MOLDOVA [email protected] ■ Karmele Barandiaran ■ Maria Jose Santos ■ Nicoleta Zagura Museu San Telmo Director, Museum of Penafiel President, Art and Heritage UNESCO Club [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SWITZERLAND MONTENEGRO ROMANIA ■ Nicoleta Zagura ■ Stefanie Steiner ■ Ljiljana Zeković President, Art and Heritage UNESCO Club Archaeologist and cultural journalist Director, Art Museum of Montenegro [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] RUSSIAN FEDERATION TURKEY THE NETHERLANDS ■ Yuliya Glazyrina ■ ■ Adelheid Ponsioen Lora Sariaslan Perm Regional Museum and Museum of Permian Independent curator, Istanbul Consultant Antiquities [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ■ ■ Jan Hovers ■ Ana Glinskaya Murat Ertuğrul Gülyaz Former Director, Zaans Museum Russian Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Directorate, Nevşehir Museum [email protected] Heritage [email protected] EMYA and the Corona Pandemic 2020 was a year of uncertainty and should keep faith with museums at a point difficult decisions. The Covid-19 in time when they were struggling, as never pandemic was a challenge to the core before, to remain open, or reopen, or to find for the EMYA competition and the new relevance and develop new fields of European Museum Forum, which are, communication with their constituents and in essence, transnational and rooted in audiences. A high number of museums, real, physical encounters. The pandemic correspondingly, kept faith with EMYA and has disrupted and dislocated the applied for EMYA2021, and the judges had to EMYA annual conferences and award show unusual resourcefulness, adaptability, ceremonies for both 2020 and 2021, and creativity to navigate the Covid-19 and it was after much deliberation that obstacle race of museums closing and the European Museum Forum board international travel bans to visit the candidate decided to invite candidates for an museums. As the second wave of Covid-19 8 EMYA2021 competition. We thought again locked Europe down, the remaining, 9 it important that we, as a well-known unvisited candidates had to be deferred to the and highly visible award scheme, coming season of EMYA2022. The Futures 2020 was a year when discussions of dystopian – futures”. As of early 2021 it the value and relevance of