European Museum of the Year Award

The European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) is presented each year by the European Museum Forum (EMF) under the auspices of the Council of Europe., 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 (NEMO) 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: European Museum of the Year Council of Europe Museum Prize

Three additional prizes were subsequently added to the EMF awards: In 2010, the Kenneth Hudson Award for daring achievement. In 2011, the Silletto Prize for community/cultural engagement. In 2019, the Portimão Museum Prize for the most welcoming museum. In 2020, the Meyvaert Museum Prize for Sustainability for "exceptional commitment to social, economic and environmental sustainability".

Criteria 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–present) The following are the winners of the main European Museum of the Year award:

YearImageMuseumLocationCountry1977Ironbridge Gorge Museum TrustIronbridge1978Schloss Rheydt MuseumMönchengladbach1979Arles1980Catharine Convent MuseumUtrecht1981 Peloponnesian Folklore FoundationNafplio1982Museum of Art and HistorySaint-Denis1983Museum SarganserlandSargans1984Zuiderzee MuseumEnkhuizen1986Museum of Medieval StockholmStockholm1987Beamish MuseumStanley1988Brandts MuseumOdense1989Sundsvall MuseumSundsvall1990Fourmies1991Leventio MuseumNicosia1992State Museum of Technology and WorkMannheim1993Alta MuseumAlta1994National Museum of DenmarkCopenhagen1995Olympic MuseumLausanne1996Museum of the Romanian PeasantBucharest1997Museum of Anatolian CivilizationsAnkara1998National Conservation CentreLiverpool1999French Museum of Playing CardsIssy-les-Moulineaux2000Guggenheim Museum BilbaoBilbao2001National Railway MuseumYork2002Chester Beatty LibraryDublin2003Victoria and Albert Museum - British GalleriesLondon2004Archaeological Museum of AlicanteAlicante2005Netherlands Open Air MuseumArnhem2006CosmoCaixaBarcelona2007German Emigration CenterBremerhaven2008Kumu Art MuseumTallinn2009Salzburg MuseumSalzburg2010Ozeaneum2010 European Museum of the Year Award, Tampere, Finland, 19–22 May 2010.Stralsund2011Gallo-Roman Museum of TongerenTongeren2012Medina Azahara MuseumCórdoba2013Riverside MuseumGlasgow2014The Museum of InnocenceIstanbul2015RijksmuseumAmsterdam2016POLIN Museum of the History of Polish JewsWarsaw2017Musée d'ethnographie de GenèveGeneva2018Design MuseumLondon2019Rijksmuseum BoerhaaveLeiden2020StapferhausLenzburg2021Naturalis Biodiversity CenterLeiden2022Museum of the MindHaarlem2023L'Etno Valencian Museum of EthnologyValencia2024Sámi Museum SiidaInari2025Manchester MuseumManchester

Council of Europe Museum Prize winners (1977–) The following are the winners of the Council of Europe Museum Prize award:

YearImageMuseumLocationCountry1977Fundació Joan MiróBarcelona1978Bryggens MuseumBergen1979Rüsselsheim am Main1980Monaghan County MuseumMonaghan1981Stockholm Music MuseumStockholm1982Åland MuseumMariehamn1983Joanneum - The Provincial Museum of StyriaGraz1984Living Museum of the Canal du CentreThieu1984National Waterways MuseumEllesmere Port1987Museum NeuköllnBerlin1988Bavarian National MuseumMunich1988Convent of Las Descalzas Reales MuseumMadrid1989Joods Historisch MuseumAmsterdam1990Manuel da Maia Museum of WaterLisbon1991German Salt MuseumLüneburg1992Argenta Marsh MuseumArgenta, Emilia–Romagna1993İstanbul Archaeology MuseumsIstanbul1994Provincial Museum of LaplandRovaniemi1995 Haus der GeschichteBonn1996Museum of Applied Arts, ViennaVienna1997Tropenmuseum JuniorAmsterdam1998Museum Centre on StrelkaKrasnoyarsk1999Palais des Beaux-Arts de LilleLille2000In Flanders Fields MuseumYpres2001Helsinki2002BuddenbrookhausLübeck2003LaténiumHauterive, Neuchâtel2004Museum of Health CareEdirne2005Museum of Byzantine CultureThessaloniki2006Churchill War RoomsLondon2007International Museum of the ReformationGeneva2008Svalbard MuseumLongyearbyen2009Zeeuws MuseumMiddelburg2010Portimão MuseumPortimão2012Rautenstrauch-Joest MuseumCologne2013Museum of LiverpoolLiverpool2014Baksı MuseumBayburt2015Museum of European and Mediterranean CivilisationsMarseille2016European Solidarity CentreGdańsk2017ACTe MemorialPointe-à-Pitre2018War Childhood MuseumSarajevo2019Bern2020Museum of Secret SurveillanceTirana2021Moscow2022Nano Nagle PlaceCork2023The Workers MuseumCopenhagen2024Sybir Memorial MuseumBiałystok2025Bilbao2026Young V&ABethnal Green

Kenneth Hudson Award winners (2010–) The following are the winners of the Kenneth Hudson Award:

YearImageMuseumLocationCountry2010Museum of Contraception and AbortionVienna2011Museum of Broken RelationshipsZagreb2012Glasnevin MuseumDublin2013Batalha Municipal Community MuseumBatalha2014Žanis Lipke MemorialRiga2015International Red Cross and Red Crescent MuseumGeneva2016MicropiaAmsterdam2017Museum of the First President of Russia Boris YeltsinYekaterinburg2018Estonian National MuseumTartu2019World Museum ViennaVienna2020Vienna2021CosmoCaixa BarcelonaBarcelona2022Wayne Modest, Nanette Snoep, Laura van Broekhoven & Leontine Meijer-van Menschn/an/a202323,5 Hrant Dink Site of MemoryIstanbul2024Ihor PoshyvailoKyiv2025Nini SanadiradzeTbilisi

Silletto Prize winners (2011–) The following are the winners of the Silletto Prize:

YearImageMuseumLocationCountry2011WatersnoodmuseumOuwerkerk2012Tolosa2013Museum aan de StroomAntwerp2014Saurer MuseumArbon2015Guise2016Vukovar City MuseumVukovar2017Leiria MuseumLeiria2018Betina2019202014 Henrietta StreetDublin2021Bayburt2022Inca2023Otar Lordkipanidze Vani Archaeological Museum of Georgian National MuseumVani2024Tallinn2025Alvor Lifeguard Interpretative CentrePortimão

Portimão Museum Prize winners (2019–) The following are the winners of the Portimão Museum Prize:

YearImageMuseumLocationCountry2019Brunel's SS Great BritainBristol2020MO MuseumVilnius2021GruuthusemuseumBruges2022University Museum of BergenBergen2023Chillida LekuHernani2024Salt MuseumMessolonghi2025Istanbul ModernIstanbul

Meyvaert Museum Prize for Sustainability winners (2020–) The following are the winners of the Meyvaert Museum Prize for Sustainability:

YearImageMuseumLocationCountry2020Wadden Sea CentreRibe2021Museum WalserhausBosco/Gurin2022Holmegaard Glass FactoryHolmegaard2023Swiss Museum of AgricultureAlberswil2024Museum of the HomeLondon2025La Chaux-de-Fonds

European Museum of the Year Award

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