SIG2 - Cultural Policy and Literacy Development

The European Museum Academy Reports on The Museum Temperature by the end of 2020

Submitted by Henrik Zipsane on February 8, 2022 - 07:32

How are museums doing in Europe? The European Museum Academy Reports on The Museum Temperature by the end of 2020. The European Museum Academy is proud to present for the third year in a row the following more subjective inside views about how museums are doing and what the museums experience as their current challenges, be it political, financial, organisational or something else.

Museums as Agents in the New Age of Volunteering

Submitted by Henrik Zipsane on February 4, 2022 - 15:46

The drive for volunteering has many roots in and impacts on societal development. It has been acknowledged as a variety of outcomes from volunteering. When the European Union by decision in 2009 made 2011 the European Year of Volunteering the objectives were set high:

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Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment (SoPHIA) - Report on the online workshop, 28 April, 2021

Submitted by Henrik Zipsane on April 29, 2021 - 10:41

The European Museums Academy has teamed up with the Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education Network of PASCAL on the 28^th of April to organise a joint webinar on cooperation with the SoPHIA- Social Platform for Holistic Impact Assessment.

Summary of EMA-PASCAL Meeting: In recognition of museums development

Submitted by Catherine Lido on October 17, 2019 - 07:08

From 19-21 September colleagues from 20 countries across Europe gathered in Ljubljana to celebrate the European Museum Academy (EMA) annual awards ceremony and conference (2019), which included talks by celebrated winners of the prestigious awards for best practice. Twenty-six museums were nominated this year, and the winner of the Micheletti award for work of excellence in social and industrial history was the Astra Museum complex in Transylvania, Romania - first time ever a winner from that country. The winner of the DASA award for excellent work in learning and education in museums was the Workers Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.