DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION:
URGENT CHALLENGES TODAY
*Spanish and Catalan translations provided for all the panels and keynote speeches.
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 > NOT ONLINE EVENT
Welcome reception, Barcelona City Hall, Saló de les Cròniques and rooftop
Welcome: Joan Roca, director MUHBA and EMF trustee
Music session by Laura Llaneli (rooftop Novíssim building of Barcelona City Hall)
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 Major)
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
Museums focusing on science increasingly consider themselves as sites for public
engagement. What strategies do they employ for citizen involvement and for fostering the
exchange between science and society? How do they contribute to an understanding of
scientific practice that enables a better appreciation of the social relevance of science,
especially in times of increased challenges that scientific institutions face in various places
across Europe?
12.20 — 12.40 Coffee break
12.40 — 13.40 Museums and Contested Histories
Today, museums must be reflexive as they navigate complex questions of contested history.
How should they face their complicity in pas dominant narratives of oppression, including the means they acquired collections? How can they reconcile the demands for more representative displays with pressures for 'neutral' celebrations of dominant narratives? How can they bring audiences with them as they redress historic wrongs, when the oppression of many minorities continues in our own time?
13.40 — 14.40 Lunch
14.40 — 15.10 Introduction: Agnes Aljas, EMYA judge
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
In the 21st Century, museums experiment with ways to address and involve their visitors. By creating synergies between heritage and artistic practice, they aim at engaging the surrounding society in questions like how we relate to the past and how we can improve our lives today. In the four cases of this panel, we can see different ways of engaging heritage and interlacing historical phenomena while projecting our ideas about a possible future.
16.10 — 17.10 Making institutional history relevant for current contexts
Drawing from these museums' unique institutional circumstances and context in which they
operate, the session will explore how they moved away from an organization that tells facts
to an organization that tells stories. How have their institutional models and ways of
working evolved over time and created new and effective ways to tell the story of their
institution - its core values and historical key points - in a radically changed world?
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 > NOT ONLINE EVENT
Light dinner, music and party in the Poblenou Park - MUHBA Oliva Artés
Welcome: Sharon Heal, EMF trustee
and Paolo Sustersic, Escola Elisava
Performance by MuOM Overtone Singing Choir & light dinner,
music and party with Cobla Marinada & Colla Violetes del Bosc
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 Major)
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
How would museums better serve their communities and new audiences? Which methods,
challenges and successes do we find in reaching to new audiences? How do museums
relate to contemporary issues and needs? How do the site, community and audiences
shape the presentation of the story?
10.45 — 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 — 11.55 Keynote address:
A possible museum
Introduction: Sharon Heal, EMF trustee
Elvira Dyangani Ose, director, MACBA
11.55 — 12.55 Making historical protagonists relevant for today’s –and tomorrow’s– society
Every present claims to be learning from history. To actually do so requires a broad debate in society.
What does this means for museums that want to make history relevant for today? Why is their history relevant? How does it become relevant? What influence does this have on the institution of the museum, its staff, its audiences?
12.55 — 13.55 Lunch
13.55 — 14.25 Introduction: Mathieu Viau-Courville, EMYA judge
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
Museums of cities are core cultural and participatory institutions for local communities.
They have a unique position to create a sense of belonging and pride in cultural identity.
How cam museums empower their residents? How to embrace the groups excluded from
their cultural offer because of their education, mental or physical disabilities? How do newcomers
like refugees, immigrants or expatriates become vital local community members?
15.10 — 15.40 Coffee break
15.40 — 17.00 Museums as hubs for civic engagement
Museums continuously rank among the most trusted institutions, providing their audiences with both trustworthy information and a safe space to engage in different societal issues. Often referred to as incubators of change, museums also carry great responsibility to serve their communities responsibly and proactively. In which way do museums enable and empower people to take action on issues important to them? What are novel, relevant and impactful ways in which museums can foster civic participation?
19.00 — 21.00 > NOT ONLINE EVENT
Visit, music and light dinner in Cosmocaixa Science Museum
Welcome: Representative from Chargeurs Museum Studio
and Valentí Farràs, director, CosmoCaixa
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 Major)
9.00 — 9.50 Keynote address:
"Staying with the trouble"
Introduction: Adriana Muñoz, EMYA judge
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
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
13.45 — 15.00 > NOT ONLINE EVENT
Workshops by former award winners and guided tours of MUHBA
Participants sign up on site and 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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