The European Museum Forum is has announced the winners of the European Museum of the Year Awards for 2020 and 2021. The winners in different categories under the EMYA scheme were presented at the online ceremony on 6 May 2021.
The European Museum of the Year 2020 :Stapferhaus, Lenzburg, Switzerland
The European Museum of the Year 2021: Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands
The Council of Europe Museum Prize 2020:The National Museum of Secret Surveillance “House of Leaves”, Tirana, Albania
The Council of Europe Museum Prize 2021: GULAG History Museum, Moscow, Russian Federation
The Kenneth Hudson Prize 2020 : House of Austrian History, Vienna, Austria
The Kenneth Hudson Prize 2021 : CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, Spain
The Silletto Prize 2020 : 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin, Ireland
The Silletto Prize 2021: Kenan Yavuz Ethnography Museum, Beşpınar, Turkey
The Portimão Museum Prize 2020: MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Portimão Museum Prize 2021: Gruuthusemuseum in Brugges, Belgium
The Meyvaert Museum Prize for Sustainability 2020: Wadden Sea Centre, Ribe, Denmark
The Meyvaert Museum Prize for Sustainability 2021: Museum Walserhaus Gurin, Bosco Gurin, Switzerland
SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS 2020
M9 Museum, Venice, Italy
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Uchma Museum, Uchma, Russian Federation
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium
Museum of Archaeological Wood “Tatar Settlement”, Sviyazhsk, Russian Federation
Troy Museum, Çanakkale, Turkey
SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS 2021
Women’s Museum Hittisau, Hittisau, Austria
Haapsalu Castle Museum, Haapsalu, Estonia
Futurium, Berlin, Germany
Hungarian Museum of Water Management and Environmental Protection Danube Museum, Esztergom, Hungary
Thesaurus Cracoviensis – Museum of Kraków, Kraków, Poland
Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskişehir, Turkey
