L’ETNO, Museu Valencià d’Etnologia, has gained the ‘European Museum of the Year Award’ (EMYA) on the EMYA museum convention held within the Tinell room of the Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA), which for 3 days has welcomed virtually 300 registrants from 33 museums in 18 European nations.
This award has been given to ETNO as a result of, in line with the jury, it “operates with a strong moral basis and a passionate dedication to result in constructive change within the area, and courageously confronts the previous to navigate an unsure future.”
The museum “values open and inclusive dialogue and strives to supply common entry to guests”, they’ve highlighted from the group, whereas including that “by the alternate and dialogue of hidden tales, the museum seeks to honor the correct of native communities to grasp their previous and acknowledge their painful experiences”.
Valencian conventional tradition
L’ETNO was created in 1982 by Joan Francesc Mira, though it didn’t open its doorways to the general public till 1983, with the aim of learning, amassing and disseminating conventional Valencian tradition.
Located within the coronary heart of the El Carmen neighborhood of Valencia, on Corona road, it has greater than 15,000 items in its assortment.
Together with L’ETNO, one other Spanish museum, the Chillida Leku in Hernani (Guipúzcoa), has been awarded with the Portimão Museum of Reception, Inclusion and Belonging award.
The remainder of the awards granted at this gala are that of the Council of Europe for a museum that has contributed considerably to defending human rights and democratic citizenship, which has fallen to the Museum of Workers in Copenhagen (Denmark); Kenneth Hudson’s award for institutional braveness {and professional} integrity for the 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory museum (Turkey); the Silletto for neighborhood participation and dedication for the Otar Lordkipanidze Vani Archaeological Museum, the National Museum of Georgia and the Meyvaert Museum award for environmental sustainability for the Swiss Museum of Agriculture.
Any sort of museum that meets one in all these three circumstances can apply for these awards: being a brand new museum, having opened within the final three years, or being a consolidated museum that has renewed its group and accomplished a considerable program of modernization and enlargement of its amenities. buildings and galleries, as reported by the group of the awards in an announcement.
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