Nominations received in 2024

• Museo De La Salle Bacolod

  

  The Museo De La Salle Bacolod houses the Jose Garcia Montelibano (JGM) Textile Arts Center, an international folk textile collection that takes pride in having textiles from more than 70 countries.

• Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ)

  

  For over a decade, MAZ has operated with the conviction that the future of museums is local, a conclusion reached by the international museum community in the wake of the pandemic.

• The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts

  

  The braveness of the institution to radically change its activities for serving the society during the war, presenting new practices, serving as an example of resilience and care at the same time.

• Museum Tinguely

  

  Museum Tinguely’s engagement in „Kultur Inklusiv“ goes far beyond the commitment to making its exhibitions and events accessible to all visitors, regardless of their physical, sensory, or cognitive abilities.

• Museo de Arte de Lima - MALI

  

  Noche MALI (MALI Night) is an activity focused on public exchange and accessibility, directed by the Public Programs Curatorship of the Museo de Arte de Lima - MALI.

• Street Art Museum Amsterdam

  

  Street Art Museum Amsterdam (SAMA) provides a unique approach in merging street art spirit with community building. I would particularly want to emphasize the work done in making community garden by involving local residents and youth.

• International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC)

  

  MGLC is a museum that pushes beyond its edges. Located in the heart of Ljubljana's Tivoli Park, MGLC is housed in two exceptional historical buildings: Tivoli Mansion since 1986 and Švicarija since 2017.

• Kunstverein

  

  Kunstverein is a women-led not-for-profit membership organisation, a publishing house, a curatorial office based in Amsterdam and a domestic franchise with sisters in Aughrim, Toronto, Milan and (soon to be rebooted) New York. Since its founding in 2009 Kunstverein aims to fill a gap in the cultural field.

• Finnish National Gallery

  

  The Finnish National Gallery is hosting Combine24, an open generative art competition, as a part of the Digital Finnish National Gallery programme.

• Seoul Museum of Art

  

  In the areas of collection, preservation, governance, and sustainability, the Seoul Museum of Art established SeMA AA to collect, preserve, and utilize significant records of contemporary art.

• Deji Art Museum

  

  The Deji Art Museum presents the exhibition "Nothing Still About Still Lifes: Three Centuries of Floral Compositions," curated by the internationally renowned curator Dr. Joachim Pissarro.

• Sharjah Museums Authority: The Museums Express

  

  The Museums Express initiative, launched by Sharjah Museums Authority in early 2019, is a mobile museum program that brings Sharjah's cultural, historical, and scientific treasures to various communities.

• Sharjah Museums Authority: Museum Studies Programme

  

  The SAWA Museum Studies Programme, initiated by the Sharjah Museums Authority in partnership with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Goethe-Institut Gulf Region, and the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW), offers a transcultural approach to museum studies.

• Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai

  

  The Art Jameel project in Dubai has been highly successful in fostering community engagement in a relatively short period of time. In their day-to-day operations, they have successfully implemented the core activities mentioned.

• Cafesjian Museum Foundation

  

  The "Yerevan Collectors Choice" series at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts is a groundbreaking project that continues its founder, collector, and philanthropist Gerard L. Cafesjian’s vision of making private collections accessible to the public.

• Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro

  

  The "Montenegro Today" project, spearheaded by MCAM, represents a groundbreaking approach to documenting and promoting contemporary Montenegrin art.

• Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín

  

  Under the concept ‘Time to listen’, MAMM highlights a post-pandemic strategic shift that has integrated their programmatic commitment to addressing climate, social, urban development, and other contemporary issues relevant to their current context.

• Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro: Incluir

  

  Comprehensive accessibility program for persons with disabilities, focusing on professional training, experimentation with technologies, and institutional change led by such persons. Organized by the Education and Participation department of MAM Rio.

• Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro: AniMAM

  

  Created in 2020, AniMAM is a project that aims to increase access to art and its history by bringing together music and animation artists to collaboratively create animated audiovisual works inspired by pieces that have marked the history of Brazilian art.

• Museum of Contemporary Art of Sao Paulo University - MAC USP

  

  This project is an example of governance practice. It consisted of elaborating a museum sustainability program by proposing practical sustainable actions to be developed in each museum sustainability dimension.

• Museo de Bellas Artes Lola Mora (MBALM)

  

  Since 2020, the MBALM has incorporated two exhibitions into its annual programmes that seek to stage artistic practices that have been made invisible in the past: those made by women artists and by the native communities of the territory of Salta.

• Museo Villa dei Cedri

  

  A historical Villa with its garden and an art collection covering from the 19th century to the 21st century is here considered as a unity, allowing to explore the interconnections between art, society, botany, landscape and communication in exhibition and education programs.

• Istanbul Museum of Modern Art

  

  Istanbul Modern, through its “Following a Dream” program launched in October 2023, enables young girls who wish to receive art education to meet with women artists and art professionals throughout the year and enhance their creative expression.

• Chillida Leku

  

  The Lotura project at Chillida Leku is an innovative program that transforms the museum into a living space for social inclusion and artistic expression.

• MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

  

  MAAT is committed to exploring new territories and functionalities for the museum space, prototyping solutions to fulfill the museum’s role on questioning paradigms, address societal problems, and engage pivotal audiences.

• MOD

  

  The Future Themes Forum involves stakeholders in developing exhibition themes by applying the methodology of Open Space to engage stakeholders in a day of conversations that encourage futures thinking.

• Fondazione Morra Greco

  

  EDI Global Forum is an important international forum dedicated to the educational mission of museums, which aims to develop a platform to connect museums and cultural institutions, experts and educators to foster discussions on approaches, experiences and perspectives related to educational and social innovation through the lens of art.

• National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

  

  Colors & Minds was an experiential artistic programme aiming to raise awareness for young people in the psychosocial sector. It lasted from October 2023 until May 2024.

• The University of Queensland Art Museum

  

  UQ Art Museum is the Australian national leader in cultural mediation, an innovative model of visitor engagement practice centred on two-way conversation and a desire to welcome and build connections with audiences of all kinds in museum and gallery spaces.

• Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI)

  

  MoLI’s founding values (Creativity, Education, Equality, Goodwill & the Courage to Experiment) underscore our mission statement, policies & public programming.

• Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art in Nusantara (MACAN)

  

  At Museum MACAN, we're passionate about making art accessible to everyone in Indonesia. Under the guidance of Nin Djani, our Curator of Education and Public Programs, we're constantly developing educational initiatives that are inspired by our ongoing exhibitions, ensuring they resonate with our diverse audience.

• National Museum of Unity, Ibadan

  

  The girl's child outreach by Museum empowered and educated young girls to become confident and knowledgeable young women.

• Museo Banco de México

  

  The construction of diverse communities that establish dialogues through the exchange of plural voices and perspectives for the confirmation of common languages ​​is a task that the Banco de México Museum carries out as part of its commitment to society.

• Museo Banco de México, curatorial workshops

  

  At the Museo Banco de México, we have introduced a methodology known as "curatorial workshops," which has become essential to the development of our exhibitions.

• Museum of Ethnography of Budapest

  

  The MotifCreator application offers a unique blend of ethnography, technology, cultural preservation, and education, providing users with a platform to explore the collection, get to know the artefact itself, and create authentic designs using motifs and patterns based on the Museum of Ethnography's artefact collection.

• Hungarian Open Air Museum

  

  The Skanzen launched its museum outreach programme, called Museum in a Suitcase in 2015. We visit mostly highly disadvantaged areas and mediate knowledge about rural lifestyle to school children with limited opportunities to participate in our museum education activities.

• King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture

  

  Founded on key values of culture, creativity, community, art and knowledge, Ithra is a cultural institution located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

• Haus der Kunst

  

  Since Lissoni is directing Hdk the museum is a happy place, filled with families and young people.