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
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
© EMYA 2023 - MUHBA BARCELONA