EMYA 2023 Barcelona

 

DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION. URGENT CHALLENGES TODAY

 

This programme is preliminary and subject to change

 

DAY 1 | WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 

Arrival of participants 

 

9.30 19.00 Registration and Information desk

MUHBA Plaça del Rei, antechamber of the Tinell (Palau Reial)

 

Optional tours organized by MUHBA

Pre-registration necessary

More information here

 

19.00 — 21.00 Welcome reception, Barcelona City Hall, Saló de les Cròniques and rooftop

Joan Roca, director MUHBA and EMF trustee

 

 

DAY 2 | THURSDAY, May 4, 2023

MUHBA Plaça del Rei, Saló del Tinell

 

Coffee breaks & lunch will take place at Chapel of Santa Àgata & the courtyard of the Verger of the Royal Palace

 

9.00 — 17.00 Registration and information desk

MUHBA Plaça del Rei, antechamber of the Tinell (Palau Reial)

 

10.00 — 10.30  Opening of EMYA 2023 

Welcome and introduction to EMYA 2023:

Jette Sandahl, European Museum Forum (EMF) chair

 

10.30 — 11.10  Keynote address:

Museums in the Construction of a Democratic Europe

Introduction: Vesna Marjanovic, EMF trustee

Josep Ramoneda, philosopher and writer

 

11.10 — 11.20  Presentation of EMYA nominees and thematic panels

Amina Krvavac, EMYA jury chair  

 

11.20 — 12.20 Making science meaningful for wider audiences

  • Tartu University Museum, Estonia 
  • Otar Lordkipanidze Vani Archeological Museum, Georgia
  • John Amos Comenius Museum, Czechia
  • Deutsches Museum Nürnberg, Germany
  • Moderator: Friedrich von Bose, EMYA judge

 

12.20 — 12.40  Coffee break

 

12.40 — 13.40 Museums and Contested Histories 

  • 23,5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory, Türkiye
  • Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion and Reconciliation, Germany
  • Sudeten German Museum, Germany
  • Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
  • Moderator: Mark O'Neill, EMYA judge

 

13.40 — 14.40  Lunch

 

14.40 — 15.10 Introduction: Kimmo Antila, EMF trustee 

The Workers Museum, Denmark, Council of Europe Museum Prize Winner 2023

Building democratic confidence. A history, a challenge, and a hope for museums

Søren Baek-Jensen, director

 

15.10 — 16.10 Synergies between heritage and the arts: Creative potentials 

  • Queen Louise Adit Complex. Coal Mining, Poland
  • FeliXart Museum, Belgium
  • Abbey Church of Payerne, Switzerland
  • Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Switzerland
  • Moderator: Adriana Munoz, EMYA judge

 

16.10 — 17.10  Making institutional history relevant for current contexts 

  • Police Museum, Türkiye
  • Thackray Museum of Medicine, United Kingdom
  • RSU Anatomy Museum, Latvia
  • St. Gall Abbey Archives, Switzerland 
  • Moderator: Mathieu Viau-Courville, EMYA judge

 

17.10 — 17.30  Coffee break    

 

17.30 — 18.00  Introduction: Jonas Dahl, EMF trustee 

The Museum of Footwear and Industry, Spain, Silletto Prize Winner 2022

Social museum: the transformation of Museum of Footwear and Industry

Aina Ferrero Horrach, director

 

19.30 — 21.30   Light dinner, music and party in the park Oliva Artés

Welcome: Sharon Heal, EMF trustee


 

DAY 3 | FRIDAY, May 5, 2023

MUHBA Plaça del Rei, Saló del Tinell

 

Coffee breaks & lunch will take place at Chapel of Santa Àgata & the courtyard of the Verger of the Royal Palace

 

8.30 — 17.00 Registration and information desk

MUHBA Plaça del Rei, antechamber of the Tinell (Palau Reial)

 

9.00 — 9.30  Introduction: Jouetta van der Ploeg, EMF trustee 

Museum of the Mind | Dolhuys, Netherlands, EMYA Winner 2022

The most mysterious artwork of all, the human mind

Hans Loojien, director

 

9.30 — 10.45  Accessibility matters: New strategies for reaching and activating audiences 

  • Depot Boijmans Van Beuijningen, Netherlands
  • Chillida Leku, Spain
  • Casa Batlló, Spain 
  • Atelier Audemars Piguet Museum, Switzerland
  • Olive Museum Klis, Croatia
  • Moderator: Agnes Aljas, EMYA judge

 

10.45 — 11.15  Coffee break

 

11.15 — 11.55  Keynote address:

A possible museum

Introduction: Richard Benjamin, EMF trustee

Elvira Dyangani Ose, director, MACBA

 

11.55 — 12.55  Making historical protagonists relevant for today’s –and tomorrow’s– society 

  • Museu Municipal de Lagos, Portugal
  • Casa Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
  • Ilia Chavchavadze Literary-Memorial Museum. Museum of the Tbilisi Museum Union, Georgia
  • Espace Muséal d'Andenne, Belgium
  • Moderator: Beat Hächler, EMYA judge

 

12.55 — 13.55  Lunch

 

13.55 — 14.25 Introduction: Kimmo Antila, EMF trustee  

Bergen University Museum, Norway, Portimao Museum Prize Winner 2022

Museums can change the world - encouraging critical thinking and curiosity

Eli Kristine Hausken, Head of Departement of Research and Science Communication

 

14.25 — 15.10 Community engagement through city museums 

  • City Museum of Rijeka, Croatia
  • Graz Museum Schlossberg, Austria
  • Olympic Museum Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Moderator: Dominika Mroczkowska-Rusiniak, EMYA judge

 

15.10 — 15.40 Coffee break

 

15.40 — 17.00 Museums as hubs for civic engagement 

  • L’Etno. Valencian Museum of Ethnology, Spain
  • Workers Museum, Denmark
  • Swiss Museum of Agriculture, Switzerland
  • Museo di Val Verzasca, Switzerland
  • Les Franciscains, France
  • Moderator: Amina Krvavac, EMYA judge

 

19.00 — 21.00 Visit, music and light dinner Cosmocaixa

Welcome: Representative from Chargeurs Museum Studio


 

DAY 4 | SATURDAY, May 6, 2023

MUHBA Plaça del Rei, Saló del Tinell

 

Coffee breaks & lunch will take place at Chapel of Santa Àgata & the courtyard of the Verger of the Royal Palace

 

8.30 — 17.00 Registration and information desk

MUHBA Plaça del Rei, antechamber of the Tinell (Palau Reial)


 

9.00 — 9.50 Keynote address:

"Staying with the trouble"

Introduction: Leontine Meijer-van Mensch, EMF national correspondent and Kenneth Hudson Prize winner 2022

Nanette Snoep, Kenneth Hudson Prize winner 2022 and director, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum


 

9.50 — 11.10  Discussion Panel:

No democratizing without decolonizing: intervening (in) museum practices

Introduction: Friedrich von Bose, EMYA judge

  • Imara Limon, curator, Amsterdam Museum
  • Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, curator, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
  • Zandra Yeaman, curator of discomfort, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

11.10 — 11.40  Coffee break


 

11.40 — 11.50  Presentation of EMYA 2024 in Portimao

Jose Gameiro, representing the Municipality of Portimao, Portugal
 

11.50 — 12:45 Certificates ceremony and group photograph of all nominated museums

Liv Ramskaer, EMF national correspondent

Dominika Mroczkowska-Rusiniak, EMYA judge
 

12:45 — 13.45 Lunch


 

13.00  — 14.15  Workshops by former award winners and guided tours of MUHBA

Participants can choose between

 

Workshop 1: Museum of the Mind | Dolhuys, Netherlands, EMYA Winner 2022

Hans Looijen, Jessica Belles, Judith de Laat

Failure is the mother of success

 

Workshop 2: The Museum of Footwear and Industry, Spain, Silletto Prize Winner 2022

Aina Ferrero Horrach

How to design more effective participatory projects? Learning from successful experiences and failures in museums. Knowledge co-creation workshop

 

Workshop 3: Bergen University Museum, Norway, Portimao Museum Prize Winner 2022

Marit Kjeksrud Amundsen and Åshild Sunde Feyling Thorsen

Science literacy as museological method

 

Workshop 4: The Workers Museum, Denmark, Council of Europe Museum Prize Winner 2023

Søren Bak-Jensen and Linda Nørgaard Andersen

What’s your connection? - How to make relations the foundation of museum development

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