OMPA Nominations received in 2025

• 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.