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The Royal Museum of Mariemont
(Brussels, Belgium)
François Mairesse - Director
- What is the best in Museums?
“The Best
in Heritage” program presents a strong selection: only
the best museums or heritage institutions, the ones which won
a prize in their country and which are supposed to share the
characteristics of excellence in their area of expertise.
But what is excellence? What is museum excellence (the same
could be said for heritage institutions in general...
2.
CosmoCaixa / Fundació “la
Caixa”
(Barcelona, Spain), 2006 European Museum of the Year Award (EMF)
Hernán Crespo - area of Science and Environment
Fundació
“la Caixa” The savings bank Caixa d’Estalvis
i Pensions de Barcelona, “la Caixa”, is the result
of a fusion between Caixa de Pensions, founded in 1904, and
Caixa de Barcelona, founded in 1844. Due to its origins and
its legal character, it is a not-for-profit, charitable and
social financial entity, privately controlled and independent
of any company or entity.
3. UNESCO
Asia-Pacific Heritage,
(Bangkok, Thailand)
2006 Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation
Dr. Richard Engelhardt - UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture
in Asia and the Pacific & Dr. Montira Horayangura
UNESCO leads
preservation eff orts worldwide in safeguarding the continuity
of diverse cultural values represented in both tangible and
intangible heritage. The 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection
of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (popularly known
as the World Heritage Convention) forms the framework for international
action in the conservation of immovable tangible cultural heritage,
which encompasses built structures, sites and landscapes...
4. Tom
Tits Experiment
(Södertälje, Sweden)
2006 The Micheletti Award (EMF)
Klas Fresk, leader of science, art and teaching
The idea behind
Tom Tits Experiment came to me at a conference 25 years ago.
The head of the Ontario Science Center was showing slides where
people were having a great time with activities that I recognised
as the building-blocks of physics teaching, educational principles
such as “conservation of momentum”. It seemed the
natural sciences and technology could be both appealing and
enjoyable at one and the same time. It’s all about the
packaging. Within the framework of the school, these subjects
often have a poor reputation...
5. ss Great
Britain Trust (Bristol, UK),
2006 Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year
Matthew Tanner, director
- The Conservation and Display of Brunel’s ss Great
Britain
Brunel’s
ss Great Britain is one of the world’s most signifi cant
historic ships (launched in 1843). Th e world’s fi rst
screw-propelled, iron-built passenger liner, she revolutionised
ship technology and world communications. She was 50% bigger
than any previous ship, and she sailed 32 times around the world
(c.1.6 million km at sea), and carried many thousands of passengers
to America and especially to Australia...
6. Omeriye
Ottoman Baths
(Nicosia, Cyprus)
2005 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Prize for
Architectural Heritage
2005 First Prize in Category I - Conservation Projects; European
Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards
Athina Papadopoulou, architect Conservator, Nicosia Master Plan
First Prize in
Category I – Conservation Projects; European Union Prize
for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2005
" For the
safeguarding of the authenticity and adaptation to contemporary
needs of a distinctive landmark of the walled city of Nicosia
and for the sensitive treatment of an Islamic architectural
element in a multicultural context"...
7. Juminkeko
Foundation
(Kuhmo, Finland)
2005 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Medal for
Cultural Landscapes
Markku Nieminen, chairman of the Board, writer
- Paanajärvi
The village of
Paanajärvi is one of the oldest in Viena; it was inhabited
in prehistoric times in fact. In 1886 J.W. Juvelius brought
Stone Age objects found in the village to add to the collections
in the Finnish National Museum. In Korvenmaa, near the village
proper, he also found Lappish cairns and, under Valkehinen,
now also known as Valkeakoski, a sauna stove from an ancient
fi shing encampment. There are no certain fi nds from the Bronze
or Copper Ages, but some historical sources claim that the coast
of the White sea was occupied by Karelians as early as the ninth
century A. D. Before that time the area was inhabited by Sami
(Lapps)...
8. Hat
Industry Museum / Museu da Indústria de Chapelaria
(Sao Joao da Madeira, Portugal)
Sérgio Lira - University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
- The Hat Industry Museum Project
The Hat Industry
Museum Project By the end of the nineties, the municipality
of S. João da Madeira (a small industrial town in the
north of Portugal) decided to undertake the project of creating
a museum that would preserve the memory of its industrial activity.
The fi rst hat industry documented for S. João da Madeira
dates back to 1802. By 1867 there were fi fteen documented hat
factories. In the beginning of the 20th century (Amaral, 1967:
134) this industry had become the most important activity of
the town...
9. Churchill
Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
(London, UK)
2006 The Council of Europe Award (EMF)
Phil Reed, director
- The Churchill Museum Project: Presenting an Icon
When the Churchill
Museum and Cabinet War Rooms were opened to the public under
the aegis of the Imperial War Museum in 1984, only one third
of the site’s full footprint was made accessible. Nevertheless,
this uniquely preserved time capsule of Winston Churchill’s
underground wartime shelter and meeting place attracted a growing
audience in its next fi fteen years, bringing a regular 300,000
plus visitors per annum from around the globe...
10. International Cultural Center and Museum - IKM (Oslo,
Norway)
2006 Norwegian Museum of the Year
Bente Guro Møller, director of IKM; for the time being
national coordinator for the Norwegian Government’s Year
of Cultural Diversity 2008 - The Heathland Centre
 IKM`s ambition
is to promote respect and understanding for cultural diversity.
We collect, document and communicate knowledge focusing on immigration
history and cultural changes in the Norwegian society. IKM aims
at presentation of a wide variety of visual art and cultural
traditions. We off er an arena for artists and performers, and
a meeting place for professionals and citizens concerned with
cultural diversity. Many of our exhibitions can be booked for
touring. Children and youths are a primary audience...
11. Mr.
Udo Goesswald, Chairman of ICOM-Europe,
Ms. Bernice Murphy, Chairperson of the Ethics Committee of ICOM,
Mrs. Chedlia Annabi, General Secretary of ICOMArabe - Dubrovnik
Global Heritage Forum: “Reclaiming Cultural Property”
- a consultative
meeting of high representatives of the world’s heritage
organizations and a discussion forum
with representatives of the heritage organizations and experts
including:
Mr. Udo Goesswald, Chairman of ICOM-Europe
Ms. Bernice Murphy, Chairperson of the Ethics Committee of ICOM
Mrs. Chedlia Annabi, General Secretary of ICOM Arabe...
12.
Museum of Natural Sciences
(Brussels, Belgium)
2006 Belgium Museum Awards / Brussels Capital Region - Museum
Award & Public Award
Wim De Vos, communication Manager
- Implicating the public
The Museum of
Natural Sciences hosts the national Belgian zoological, palaeontological,
mineralogical and geological collections. It’s the public
interface of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences,
involved in fundamental and applied research in biology, geology,
mineralogy, palaeontology and (physical) anthropology...
13.
Kew Bridge Steam Museum
(Brentford - London, UK)
2006 Museums and Heritage Award for Excellence - Classic Award
- B.Sc., C.Eng., F.I.MarEST. Trustee, Kew Bridge Steam Museum
John S. Porter - Supplying water to London by steam
The museum tells
the story of London’s water supply using the original
steam pumps as the main theme. Few can resist the drama as the
90 inch (2300mm) piston whisks the 42 tonne balance weight nearly
3½ metres upwards, to be followed by a pause, then the
slow descent as two cubic metres of water are delivered, another
pause, then the cycle beginning again as the weight shoots upwards.
All this on an engine still in its original 1846 condition...
14. Fremantle
Prison - The Convict Establishment (Fremantle,
Western Australia)
2006 Western Australian Tourism Awards - Major Tourist Attractions
Clive Nelthorpe, chairman of the Fremantle Prison Advisory Committee
Anthropologists,
archaeologists and historians calculate that Aboriginals have
inhabited Australia for over 40,000 years. The survival and
strength of Aboriginal Society lay in group dynamics rather
than the dynamics of individualism as found in most western
cultures. There were no kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers
or chieftains in Aboriginal society...
15. University
of Art & Design Helsinki
(UIAH), Media Lab (Helsinki, Finland)
2005 UNESCO Nabi Digital Storytelling Competition of Intangible
Heritage (1st prize winner)
Dr. Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Professor - Systems of Representation
- Voices for The Map of Mexico 1550
Digital reality
Imagine being able to immerse yourself into one of the most
valuable documents from the early colonial history of the city
of México. Moving the digital replica with your hands,
you are able to zoom in very closely. Diminutive pictograms
reveal themselves to you whilst myriad sources of information
become available. You decide whether to view a historic legend
rendered in digital video by a group of young designers, or
examine a website created by scholars containing photographs
and descriptions of the historic monuments, or even enjoy the
real time imagery transmitted via a web cam overlooking the
city of Mexico...
16. Museum
of Literature "Petofi"
(Budapest, Hungary)
2006 AVICOM Fi@mp Silver Multimedi’art for CD/DVD ROM
Consciousness - Attila József (1905–1937) - Ilona H. Bagó, author
Museum
In 1954, a Council of Ministers order founded the Museum of
Literature Petofi with the aim of collecting and preserving
records of Hungarian literature. The name of the Museum presented
itself naturally, since the poesy of Sándor Petofi ,
who died young in the 1848-49 War of independence, symbolises
Hungarian poetry to the general reader both within and beyond
the borders of the country. With the establishment of the new,
national institution, an important consideration was that the
Museum should - as the legal successor of the Petofi House,
protector of the Petofi legacy - continue and, at the same time,
operate on a new basis...
17. The
National Museum of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland)
2006 Specially Commended / European Museum of the Year (EMF)
Margrét Hallgrímsdóttir, general Director
- The National Museum of Iceland
At the National
Museum the present meets the past. The Icelandic people ask
who they are, where they are going and what they want to represent.
What can we learn from past generations? In this we also ask
what is the role of any national museum in the world. The National
Museum of Iceland displays objects that provide insight into
Icelandic cultural history - displays that encourage visitors
to dwell on the past, present and future...
18. Imaginary
Museum Projects (Amsterdam, Netherland)
- Tjebbe van Tijen - for his own one man company
- Ways to represent multiple truth
Avisual lecture
by Tjebbe van Tijen / and the future role of museums
Imaginary Museum Projects,
Amsterdam.
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