SIG2 - Cultural Policy and Literacy Development

The European Museum Academy Reports on The Museum Temperature by the end of 2020

Posted February 8, 2022 - 08:32 by Henrik Zipsane

How are museums doing in Europe? The European Museum Academy Reports on The Museum Temperature by the end of 2020. The European Museum Academy is proud to present for the third year in a row the following more subjective inside views about how museums are doing and what the museums experience as their current challenges, be it political, financial, organisational or something else.

Museums as Agents in the New Age of Volunteering

Posted February 4, 2022 - 16:46 by Henrik Zipsane

The drive for volunteering has many roots in and impacts on societal development. It has been acknowledged as a variety of outcomes from volunteering. When the European Union by decision in 2009 made 2011 the European Year of Volunteering the objectives were set high:

Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment (SoPHIA) - Report on the online workshop, 28 April, 2021

Posted April 29, 2021 - 11:41 by Henrik Zipsane

The European Museums Academy has teamed up with the Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education Network of PASCAL on the 28th of April to organise a joint webinar on cooperation with the  SoPHIA- Social Platform for Holistic Impact Assessment.

Cultural Heritage Policy report - Elia Vlachou and Henrik Zipsane

Posted February 22, 2020 - 10:07 by Henrik Zipsane

Together with a colleague, Elia Vlachou also from the European Museum Academy (EMA), Henrik Zipsane, produced the attached literary review summary for cultural heritage policies on an international level.  It is produced within the EU Horizon 2020 project Sophia (Social Platform for Holistic Impact Assessment). It provides an overview of what’s in the relevant policies here and now.

Summary of EMA-PASCAL Meeting: In recognition of museums development

Posted October 17, 2019 - 08:08 by Catherine Lido

From 19-21 September colleagues from 20 countries across Europe gathered in Ljubljana to celebrate the European Museum Academy (EMA) annual awards ceremony and conference (2019), which included talks by celebrated winners of the prestigious awards for best practice. Twenty-six museums were nominated this year, and the winner of the Micheletti award for work of excellence in social and industrial history was the Astra Museum complex in Transylvania, Romania - first time ever a winner from that country. The winner of the DASA award for excellent work in learning and education in museums was the Workers Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Senior Citizens Heritage Learning Initiative

Posted February 8, 2019 - 13:24 by Henrik Zipsane

Museums are traditionally characterised by their way of working and not by their purpose. The public are not surprised that museums in general collect, preserve and display traces of art and history. The way museums produce is however not the same as the aim or purpose of museums. The role of museums in their community - local, national or even global - may differ but the museums way of working somehow supports or stimulate the aims and as always easiest to understand on some years distance. 

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