A dynamic and forward-thinking organisation to
stimulate innovative visions in
Our thinking
European museums
The European Museum Academy Foundation is engaged in developing researches
in the field of museum innovation, stimulating new ideas and experiences and
offering its services as an incubator for new talents and new programs in order to
improve the quality of museum services and of museological discourse at the
European level. The Academy intends to be a society of museum experts of different
national and cultural backgrounds united for the advancement of museological
knowledge, based on a curriculum of proved capacity in carrying out innovative
museum projects. One of the aims of the European Museum Academy is to preserve
the legacy of Kenneth Hudson and to disseminate the values and the pioneering
intuitions and views of his museological thinking among the new generation of
museum professionals as well as cultural professionals active on a European scale.
Every year EMA organizes a Kenneth Hudson Seminar on various topics.
Our activities and projects
The Academy counts on a qualified Pool of Experts from all over Europe.
EMA organizes activities, training programmes – workshops, brainstorming,
seminars, focus group meetings - for museum professionals, works to improve the
possibilities for staff exchange programmes, publishes reports, runs special projects
and award schemes, offers a unique consultancy service for the assessment of
museums’ qualities and raises funds for a wide range of sectors.
EMA participates in LEM, The Learning Museum, an EU Grundtvig Project. Organizes
yearly international professional meetings on museological issues. EMA works with
the University of Padua for implementation of the Kenneth Hudson Library.
Three courses in museology developed under the auspices of EMA: the Course in
Scientific Museography organised by CosmoCaixa in Barcelona; the Piran Museology
Summerschool promoted by the Museum of Recent History in Celje, Slovenia and
the Master Course in European Museology at IULM University of Milan.
EMA publishes every month the “Article of the Month”, a written contribution from various
international experts in the field of museology and cultural heritage.
Awards
European Museum Academy Prize
The European Museum Academy Prize has the aim of recognizing the outstanding results of
museum researchers and cultural institutions in creating pioneering museums or producing
studies destined to influence the museological discourse at the international level.
Micheletti Award
Established by the Micheletti Foundation and Kenneth Hudson in 1996 for the recognition of
excellence in the specific sector of European science, technology and industry museums.
Children in Museums Award
In co-operation with Hands On! International, a professional organization representing
museums dedicated to children that especially focus on children up to the age of 14 years.
Heritage in Motion (HIM)
European Multimedia Festival for Cultural Heritage Institutions. A new award scheme devoted
to multimedia for European cultural heritage promoted by Europa Nostra in co-operation
with EMA.
Museums in Short: with the Micheletti Foundation is a yearly competition for short videos
The EMA Foundation also develops its program in partnership with qualified institutions
active in the museum field as well as in the cultural heritage sector in general. This cooperation implies regular exchanges of information, production of common documents,
planning of seminars and other events, publications, and research projects on a bilateral or
multilateral basis. The current partners of EMA in this kind of activities are:
COSMOCAIXA, Barcelona (ES)
DASA, Dortmund (DE)
EUROPA NOSTRA, The Hague (NL)
EUROPEANA - EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION, The Hague (NL)
FONDAZIONE LUIGI MICHELETTI, Brescia (IT)
HANDS ON! INTERNATIONAL (HO!I)
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MUSEOLOGY, Celje (SI)
ISTITUTO PER I BENI ARTISTICI CULTURALI E NATURALI DELLA REGIONE EMILIA-ROMAGNA - IBC (IT)
LEVENTIS FOUNDATION, Nicosia (CY)
LUIGI MICHELETTI FOUNDATION, Brescia (IT)
PIRAEUS BANK GROUP CULTURAL FOUNDATION, Athens (EL)
FROUM OF SLAVIC CULTURES , Lubljana (Si)
APOM, Portuguese Association of Museology, Lisbon (PT)
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MUSEOLOGY AND COLLECTION PROTECTION, Warsaw( PL).
TIM. The State Textile Museum, Augsburg (De)
BURSA CITY MUSEUM, Bursa (Tk)
The European Museum Academy, registered as a non-profit Foundation in The Netherlands, was established in
2009 by a group of professionals active in the museum field. They worked with Kenneth Hudson for many
years in the European Museum of the Year Award, under the auspices of the Council of Europe.
Andreja Rihter - President
Massimo Negri - Director
Wim van der Weiden – Chairman
Christopher Grayson
Arno van Berge Henegouwen
Benedetto Benedetti
Advisors
Board
www.europeanmuseumacademy.eu
Join us
europeanmuseumacademy@gmail.com
Contacts
Who we are:
Partnerships
produced by and for museums.
Graziano Campanini
Hermann Schäfer
Tamás Vásárhelyi
Jorge Wagensberg
Support us!
Do you want to be a really supportive partner of our Academy? Supporters not only
have the opportunity to be associated with a modern, energetic organisation, but will
have the chance to put forward their own ideas for new initiative. To join the EMA
supporting scheme is easy, it's enough to download and fill the application form from
our website www.europeanmuseumacademy.eu or contact EMA Co-ordinator, Ann
Nicholls.