OMPA Nominations received in 2025

• Ajara Art Museum

  

  "Ceramics – Traditional Craft" is an inclusive project within the educational program of the Ajara Art Museum, aimed at reviving and preserving the traditional ceramic heritage of the region.

• Asia Art Archive

  

  Asia Art Archive’s innovative custodianship model and knowledge-sharing practice

• Museo Barda del Desierto

  

  "An Architecture of Diffuse Boundaries" design dissolves the line between built space and natural environment by organizing artworks through geolocation and digital access via QR codes.

• Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

  

  Bangkok Art and Culture Centre's "AAA" development initiative, featuring artists, art workers, and audience. Fostering curatorial innovation & transdiciplinary collaboration.

• Bergen Kjøtt Foundation

  

  GRIP is an educational and accessibility initiative to strengthen a greater diversity within technical roles behind the scenes in museums, and the wider cultural industry.

• Blackitude Museum

  

  "Watch – Art. Art" is a participatory and creative sharing program centered around works of art from yesterday and today, taking into account the different universes, fields, and currents of artistic expression.

• Centro de Arte Moderna - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

  

  "Sounds of a Revolution" is an arts education participatory project which resulted in both a concert in which the young people performed with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and an exhibition.

• CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile)

  

  The "Accessibility Docent Training Programme" mission is to train Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing individuals to collaboratively lead innovative and inclusive museum experiences.

• Chinese Canadian Museum

  

  Exhibition Programming in which Chinese Canadian artists from across Canada were commissioned to research the Chung Collection and create original artworks in response.

• (GAMeC) Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo

  

  "Thinking Like a Mountain – The Orobie Biennal" is a widespread experimental program carried out over 2024–2025, rethinking traditional biennial formats & focusing on sustainability and a long-term community involvement.

• Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation

  

  The Index Teen Advisory Board is a program allowing young individuals with diverse experiences to be elected for salaried positions in an advisory board for Index.

• Instituto Inhotim

  

  "Inhotim+Brumadinho: Methodologies for a museum-territory relationships" is an initiative to make the local community a frequent visitor to the museum, making the museum an active participant in solving local problems and aspirations.

• İşbank Museum of Painting-Sculpture

  

  The İşbank Museum of Painting-Sculpture Learning Programs are an innovative series of learning programs that reimagine how museums engage with diverse communities—particularly children and students.

• Kiran Nadar Musem of Art (KNMA)

  

  The "Young Artists of Our Times" Program explores the museum as a polyphonous form with exhibitions, publications, projects, clubs, libraries, and public art interventions.

• Kunsthaus Zürich

  

  "The Gateway Fund" supports art shown in public areas with free access. Inviting different audiences to explore and experience art that can be seen for the duration of approximately 2 years, after that new projects are shown.

• Kunstmuseum Luzern

  

  "Unlearning Beauty" is an ongoing program that questions artistic pedagogical practices and approaches contributions to specific social discourses.

• La Nueva Fábrica

  

  La Nueva Fábrica’s Healing Re-existence exhibition cycle (2024–2025) reimagined museum practice by placing Indigenous knowledge systems, spiritual reciprocity, and communal care at the center of its curatorial framework.

• Lönnström Art Museum

  

  Lönnström Projects of Contemporary Art. Lönnström Art Museum is a small, privately run museum in Rauma, on the west coast of Finland.

• Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)

  

  The Jardin Ambulante [Mobile Garden] was launched in 2022 to enhance further MACBA’s long-standing community engagement in the El Raval neighbourhood.

• MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale

  

  The Museum of the Non-Object: Redefining Engagement Through Experience, Care, and Community.

• MO Museum

  

  Cultural education is one of the core functions at MO Museum, shaping both our activities and the way we operate. It

• MOD. at University of South Australia

  

  Ethos is a Community of Practice (CoP) established in 2021 that brings together University of South Australia researchers, students, and the public to engage in meaningful dialogue about future-focused ethical issues.

• Moderna Museet

  

  "Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product" took the practice of punk queer icon Vaginal Davis to create a project across multiple venues in Stockholm.

• MOMus- Museum of Modern Art- Costakis Collection

  

  “A walk together” is a museum program being held in MOMus- Museum of Modern Art- Costakis Collection in collaboration with the Special Centre for Prevention and Treatment of Memory Disorders of the Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki.

• MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

  

  The "Memories in Frames" program organized by MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Grecce, is an innovative initiative that engages elderly participants in exploring and sharing their personal histories through the medium of photography.

• MUNCH

  

  SOLO OSLO is a project that traverses the Exhibition and Learning departments at MUNCH. Starting in 2019, it is now in its fifth edition, and aims to support artist and mediators at the early stages of their careers.

• Museion

  

  Museion Art Club is organised by the Museion Art Club Forum and aims to support the development of urban culture in South Tyrol.

• Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende - MSSA

  

  The Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA) is a museum of modern and contemporary art with one of the most important collections in Latin America

• Museo Madre

  

  This year, the Madre Museum has launched a series of guided tours designed exclusively for pregnant women and new mothers.

• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

  

  The School of Situated Mediation “Aissatou Ndiaye” (Escuela de Mediación Situada) is a long-term mediation program developed by the Museo Reina Sofía in collaboration with Museo Situado.

• museu A CASA do Objeto Brasileiro

  

  Since its founding in May 1997, Museu A CASA do Objeto Brasileiro has been committed to valuing and promoting Brazilian artisanal production and design.

• Museu Tàpies

  

  Imagining Worlds with PIDs drawing competition. The museum as a space for healing and active listening.

• Museum of Art & Photography

  

  Beyond Theory is an annual conference, programmed under the museum’s permanent exhibition VISIBLE/INVISIBLE that explores the representation of women and gender through artworks in the collection.

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

  

  The curatorial team of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Senka Ristivojević and Katarina Krstić, launched an inclusive program in 2018 with the aim of making the Yugoslav artistic heritage of the 20th and 21st centuries more accessible to people with disabilities, especially blind and visually impaired audiences.

• Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)

  

  To address the systemic issue of low representation of the Hispanic, Latin American, Latinx, Caribbean, and Chicanx experience in the museum field in the USA, the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) created and implemented the 2023-2026 Latino Museum Research & Fellowship Consortium (LMRFC) and the MOLAA Collection Research Center and Laboratory, with the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

• National Gallery of Canada

  

  The National Engagement initiative redefines what a national museum can be in the 21st century: not a place of centralized authority, but a dynamic, collaborative network of relationships, voices and experiences shared across the country and beyond.

• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

  

  Grounded in equity-centered museum practice and universal design principles, the Deaf Culture Project (DCP) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art offers programs, resources, and services that enable people who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing to rich experiences with art.

• Seoul Museum of Art(SeMA)

  

  SeMA’s Art Program for All, We’re going to the Museum (2025), is an experimental project aimed at expanding museum accessibility for both people with and without disabilities.

• Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

  

  What could a Transcultural Academy do for and beyond a 500-year European museum complex of 15 museum collections? Who are its students? What are its limits and possibilities? Why is the museum as a site of transhistoric study beyond borders necessary today?

• Tāmaki Paenga Hira – Auckland War Memorial Museum

  

  Te Aho Mutunga Kore: the eternal thread of knowledge is a textile and fibre centre for Māori and Pacific within Auckland Museum. The Museum holds important collections of historical and contemporary Pacific and Māori taonga (artworks).

• The Palestinian Museum

  

  In October 2023, three weeks into Israel's bombardment of Gaza, the Palestinian Museum responded swiftly as Gaza's cultural infrastructure was destroyed: two museums, galleries, archives, and heritage sites were reduced to rubble. The Museum offered its main exhibition hall as an extension of bombed Gazan venues, beginning "This Is Not an Exhibition," a collective show for artists created under siege.

• Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Craft and Design

  

  With Things Matter (2023–24) and Data Mirror (2022–23) as defining and academically researched examples, Trapholt has since 2014 developed a practice with 10, sometimes awardwinning, collaborative art projects that reshape the role of museums in contemporary society.

• Zeyrek Çinili Hamam Museum

  

  As part of the educational programming at the Zeyrek Çinili Hamam Museum, we have developed a unique and socially responsive workshop model: for every paid children’s workshop we offer, we organize a corresponding free workshop for students from both public schools located in our immediate neighborhood.