The European Museum of the Year, organised and given by the European Museum Forum has celebrated it's 30th anniversary during a ceremony, followed by several cultural actions in Alicante, Spain. The awards for 2007 have been announced on the fifth of May during a ceremony hosted by the Archeological Museum of Alicante, winner of the European Museum of the Year Award in 2004.
The awards were :
Micheletti Award (for the most daring industrial and technical museum) - Brunel ss Great Britain Museum in Bristol, which is considered to be an exceptional success of a private trust.
European Council Award (consisting of a beautiful bronze statue by Joan Miro) - won by the International Museum of Reform in Geneve, as the only muzeum for that subject in Europe. This institution has tight bonds with other important museum in the world and has already published several important works in this field.
European Museum of the Year Award 2007 (a bronze statue by Henry Moore) - given to the Center for German Immigration in Bremerhaven. This museum is hosted in a building on the same spot from where sevel million emigrants have left, for various reasons, for the New World. The museum also has the Gallery of the Seven Million, documenting the lives and identities of the sevel million who have left, a huge and unique archive.
Other museums have also received special distinctions :
- Museum of the Breese Region, Saint-Cyr-Menthon, France
- Museum of Psychiatry, Haarlem, Holland
- Museum of Railway, Utrecht, Holland
- Paul Klee Center, Berna, Switzeland.
Even if none of the Romanian museums has been present at this year edition, for the 2008 Award several institutions have already announced their participation, such as the National Museum for Maps and Old Book or the Museum of Romanian Literature in Iasi.
May 2007
