The Best in Heritage
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The Best in Heritage is an international annual survey of awarded museum
, heritage
and conservation projects. The survey was launched in 2003 by the European Heritage Association from Zagreb
under leadership from professor Tomislav Šola
. The event is being held every year in the city of Dubrovnik
, Croatia
at the end of September. The main aim of the conference is to give prize winning projects from the preceding year all the professional and media attention possible and to offer exchange of professional experiences, contacts and information.
The event serves to identify and promote the best museum, heritage and conservation projects in the world. This event brings together museum and heritage professionals (architects, designers, consultants, information specialists, suppliers, tourism experts, media people etc.), various institutions and professionals from a broad range of practice and interest in the field of heritage. Since 2009, the conference has been organized in partnership with Europa Nostra
.
), whole other patrons are: UNESCO
Venice Office, ICOMOS, ICCROM, World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM), International Federation of Library Associations, the City of Dubrovnik
and the Croatian Ministry of Culture
. The Museums of Dubrovnik and Croatian National Committee of ICOM are a supporting organisations. The event is organized in partnership with Europa Nostra
.
There are several presentations of projects awarded with a Europa Nostra Award and "New Projects", with 6 presentations of new, innovative projects.
Abílio Barreto Historical Museum, Alimentarium Food Museum, Almond Valley, Heritage Trust, Buddenbrook-House, Duna Museum - Danube Museum, FAI Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, Imperial War Museum North, Musée de la civilisation, Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo,Museum of Ceramics of Sacavém, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Museum of Recent History - Celje, Open Museum Association, Rotorua Museum of Art and History
, Svendborg & Omegns Museum, Tallinn Town Hall, The British Museum, The Chester Beatty Library, The Herring Era Museum, The House of Alijn (Belgium), The Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, The Kierikki Stone Age Centre, The Museum Rhein-Schauen at Lustenau/Austria, The Royal Navy Submarine Museum
The Best in Heritage 2004 featured projects:
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ethnographic Museum of Split, Karelian State Local Lore Museum, Laténium - Archaeology Park and Museum, Moderna Museet, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Museo del Aceite “El Lagar del Mudo”, Museum of Textile and Clothing Industry (Budapest), National Centre for Citizenship and the Law (NCCL) at the Galleries of Justice, National Museum of Ireland, Pontis, Shetland Amenity Trust, Slovenski verski muzej / Slovene Museum of Religion, The Ærøskøbing Heritage Society, The Goulandris Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Western Australian Maritime Museum
The Best in Heritage 2005 featured projects:
Andrew Hunter: Lalla Rookh Project - A Poetic Archive, BRC Imagination Arts BV, Comune di Firenze, Ufficio Tematico Centro Storico, Desht-e-Art Center (SO “Laboratory of Social Development”), Heritage Malta, Kultur Avesta, MARQ - Archaeological Museum of the Province of Alicante, Midt-Troms museum (Central-Troms Museum), Museum of Bedouin Culture, Museum of Folkart and Tradition, Porcia Castle, Old Paper Mill in Konstancin near Warsaw, Saratov State Museum named after A. N. Radischev, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Société des musées québécois, The House of Terror Museum, The Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum of Piran, The Workers’ Museum in Copenhagen, Trakya University Complex of Sultan Bayezid II Health Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Varaždin City Museum - “Kukci / Insects CD ROM”, Zagreb City Museum
The Best in Heritage 2006 featured projects:
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Anne Brake, National Trust of Australia (WA), Art Museum of Estonia, ATAT & Continuum Group, Bauska Castle Museum, Casa Batlló, Landesmuseum Joanneum, M. A. Sholokhov State Museum-Reserve, Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki, Greece), Museum of Nature of Buryatiya, National Library of the Czech Republic, National Railway Museum, York, Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, Sverresborg, Trøndelag Folkemuseum, Technical Museum in Brno - Rebirth of a Museum, The Heathland Centre, The Stichting Monumentenzorg Curaçao, University College London, University of the Arts, London, Värmlands Museum, Varusschlacht im Osnabrücker Land - Museum und Park Kalkriese
The Best in Heritage 2007 featured projects:
Alba Plata Management Office, Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, CosmoCaixa, Fremantle Prison - The Convict Establishment, International Cultural Center and Museum (IKM), Juminkeko Foundation, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Museum of Literature "Petőfi", Museum of Natural Sciences, Royal Observatory, ss Great Britain Trust, The National Museum of Iceland, The Omeriye Ottoman Baths, Tom Tits Experiment, UNESCO Bangkok, University Fernando Pessoa, Voices for The Map of Mexico 1550, What is the best in Museums?
The Best in Heritage 2008 featured projects:
Archeological Museum Narona, Biskupin Archaeological Museum, Mourne Homesteads - Mourne Heritage Trust, Museum Centre Nakhodka, Museum the Menkemaborg, Museums in Sustainable Development / Ha Long Ecomuseum, National Library of Ireland, National Museums Liverpool, Pallant House Gallery, Royal Museums of Art and History, Cinquantenaire Museum, Sarica Church / KA.BA Conservation of Historic Buildings and Architecture Ltd, State Borodino War and History Museum-Reserve, The Abbey of Klosterneuburg, The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum, The European Museum Forum, The German Emigration Center Bremerhaven, The International Museum of the Reformation, The Museum Centre of Hordaland, The Workshops Rail Museum, Triglav National Park
The Best in Heritage 2009 featured projects:
A Mediated Window to the Stockholm Art and Industry Fair of 1897, Art Museum of Estonia, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience, Cultural Tourism Development Center “City-Museum”, Europa Nostra, Fondation des Clefs de St-Pierre, Hunebedcentrum, Netherlands, IMTAL Europe Board of Directors, Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, Manx National Heritage, Isle of Mann, British Isles, Museum of History of Catalonia, Svalbard Museum, The Museum of Communication, Bern, Switzerland, The National Institute for the Protection and Conservation of Monuments and Sites, The Science Museum at the University of Coimbra, Transylvania Trust, XXI Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquites of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The Best in Heritage 2010 featured projects:
Museum of Natural History (Neuchâtel Switzerland), Zeeuws Museum (Middelburg, Netherlands), The Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre (Nuneaton, Leicestershire UK),Museum of the Jaeren Region (Narbo, Norway), Open Air Museum (Arnhem, Nederlands), Idrija Municipal Museum (Idrija, Slovenia), Salzburg Museum (Salzburg, Austria), D.D. Studio (Riga, Latvia), Kerry County Museum (Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland), Craftattract project - Museums of Hrvatsko zagorje (Gornja Stubica, Croatia), BELvue Museum (Brussels, Belgium), Mátra Museum (Gyöngyös, Hungary), The Pier Arts Centre (Orkney UK), Sustainable Aegean Programme (Crete and the Aegean Islands, Greece), Maison du patrimoine médiéval mosan (Bouvignes, Belgium), Culture Ants project (Istanbul, Turkey), Mr W.Richard West Jr. (United States) - Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Mr. Ewald Vanvugt (Nederlands): Robbers’ Paradise or "The European Museum of Overseas Stolen Treasures"
The Best in Heritage 2011 featured projects:
Museu de Portimão (Portimão, Portugal), Workshops Rail Museum (North Ipswich, Australia),Tarbat Discovery Programme (Ross-shire, United Kingdom), Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose (Lessines, Belgium), NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology (Trondheim, Norway), Science Center NEMO (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Museu Agbar de les Aigües (Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain), Ozeaneum (Stralsund, Germany), The Medical Museion (Copenhagen, Denmark), UNESCO Bangkok / Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (Asia - Pacific), Museum of Contraception and Abortion (Vienna, Austria), Ulster Museum (Belfast, United Kingdom), Museum Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), East Eifel Volcano Park (Plaidt, Germany), Discovering the Museum - Brukenthal National Museum (Sibiu, Romania), Faith in Maintainance(London, United Kingdom),Vincent van Gogh: The Letters Project (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Baerwaldbad - Conservation through Vocational Training (Berlin, Germany), Westergasfabriek (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Technical Museum in Brno (Brno, Czech Republic), NUKU Museum of Puppet Arts (Tallinn, Estonia)
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
, heritage
Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations...
and conservation projects. The survey was launched in 2003 by the European Heritage Association from Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
under leadership from professor Tomislav Šola
Tomislav Šola
Tomislav Šola is professor of museology, head of the post-graduate study of museology and head of the chair on museology and heritage management at the University of Zagreb. He is also a guest professor at the University of Arts in Belgrade and European University in Budapest...
. The event is being held every year in the city of Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
at the end of September. The main aim of the conference is to give prize winning projects from the preceding year all the professional and media attention possible and to offer exchange of professional experiences, contacts and information.
The event serves to identify and promote the best museum, heritage and conservation projects in the world. This event brings together museum and heritage professionals (architects, designers, consultants, information specialists, suppliers, tourism experts, media people etc.), various institutions and professionals from a broad range of practice and interest in the field of heritage. Since 2009, the conference has been organized in partnership with Europa Nostra
Europa Nostra
Europa Nostra, the pan-European Federation for Cultural Heritage, is the representative platform of 250 heritage NGOs active in 45 countries across Europe...
.
The event
The Best in Heritage is an annual presentation of awarded museum, heritage, and conservation projects. The representatives of some 20 projects explain why their achievements were proclaimed the best in the previous year, either internationally or nationally, and received a prize or award. Organizers will just let them present themselves and will neither evaluate nor give awards. The aim is to present quality projects in anything concerning the care and communication of heritage.Patronage
The main patron is ICOM (International Council of MuseumsInternational Council of Museums
The International Council of Museums is an international organization of museums and museum professionals that is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world's natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible.- Overview :Created...
), whole other patrons are: UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
Venice Office, ICOMOS, ICCROM, World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM), International Federation of Library Associations, the City of Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...
and the Croatian Ministry of Culture
Ministry of Culture (Croatia)
The Ministry of Culture is a ministry of the Croatian government, whose work is aimed at preserving the cultural and natural heritage and overseeing its development...
. The Museums of Dubrovnik and Croatian National Committee of ICOM are a supporting organisations. The event is organized in partnership with Europa Nostra
Europa Nostra
Europa Nostra, the pan-European Federation for Cultural Heritage, is the representative platform of 250 heritage NGOs active in 45 countries across Europe...
.
The programme
Around 20 hand-picked projects and institutions which have received national or international awards in the previous year are presented by their authors or institution directors followed by discussions, exhibitions and receptions.There are several presentations of projects awarded with a Europa Nostra Award and "New Projects", with 6 presentations of new, innovative projects.
Past events
The Best in Heritage 2003 featured projects:Abílio Barreto Historical Museum, Alimentarium Food Museum, Almond Valley, Heritage Trust, Buddenbrook-House, Duna Museum - Danube Museum, FAI Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, Imperial War Museum North, Musée de la civilisation, Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo,Museum of Ceramics of Sacavém, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Museum of Recent History - Celje, Open Museum Association, Rotorua Museum of Art and History
Rotorua Museum of Art and History
The Rotorua Museum of Art and History is a local museum and art gallery located in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand.The museum is housed in the old Bath House building at the spa town of Rotorua, located in the Government Gardens. Rotorua Museum opened in the south wing of the Bath...
, Svendborg & Omegns Museum, Tallinn Town Hall, The British Museum, The Chester Beatty Library, The Herring Era Museum, The House of Alijn (Belgium), The Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, The Kierikki Stone Age Centre, The Museum Rhein-Schauen at Lustenau/Austria, The Royal Navy Submarine Museum
The Best in Heritage 2004 featured projects:
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ethnographic Museum of Split, Karelian State Local Lore Museum, Laténium - Archaeology Park and Museum, Moderna Museet, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Museo del Aceite “El Lagar del Mudo”, Museum of Textile and Clothing Industry (Budapest), National Centre for Citizenship and the Law (NCCL) at the Galleries of Justice, National Museum of Ireland, Pontis, Shetland Amenity Trust, Slovenski verski muzej / Slovene Museum of Religion, The Ærøskøbing Heritage Society, The Goulandris Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Western Australian Maritime Museum
The Best in Heritage 2005 featured projects:
Andrew Hunter: Lalla Rookh Project - A Poetic Archive, BRC Imagination Arts BV, Comune di Firenze, Ufficio Tematico Centro Storico, Desht-e-Art Center (SO “Laboratory of Social Development”), Heritage Malta, Kultur Avesta, MARQ - Archaeological Museum of the Province of Alicante, Midt-Troms museum (Central-Troms Museum), Museum of Bedouin Culture, Museum of Folkart and Tradition, Porcia Castle, Old Paper Mill in Konstancin near Warsaw, Saratov State Museum named after A. N. Radischev, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Société des musées québécois, The House of Terror Museum, The Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum of Piran, The Workers’ Museum in Copenhagen, Trakya University Complex of Sultan Bayezid II Health Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Varaždin City Museum - “Kukci / Insects CD ROM”, Zagreb City Museum
The Best in Heritage 2006 featured projects:
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Anne Brake, National Trust of Australia (WA), Art Museum of Estonia, ATAT & Continuum Group, Bauska Castle Museum, Casa Batlló, Landesmuseum Joanneum, M. A. Sholokhov State Museum-Reserve, Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki, Greece), Museum of Nature of Buryatiya, National Library of the Czech Republic, National Railway Museum, York, Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, Sverresborg, Trøndelag Folkemuseum, Technical Museum in Brno - Rebirth of a Museum, The Heathland Centre, The Stichting Monumentenzorg Curaçao, University College London, University of the Arts, London, Värmlands Museum, Varusschlacht im Osnabrücker Land - Museum und Park Kalkriese
The Best in Heritage 2007 featured projects:
Alba Plata Management Office, Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, CosmoCaixa, Fremantle Prison - The Convict Establishment, International Cultural Center and Museum (IKM), Juminkeko Foundation, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Museum of Literature "Petőfi", Museum of Natural Sciences, Royal Observatory, ss Great Britain Trust, The National Museum of Iceland, The Omeriye Ottoman Baths, Tom Tits Experiment, UNESCO Bangkok, University Fernando Pessoa, Voices for The Map of Mexico 1550, What is the best in Museums?
The Best in Heritage 2008 featured projects:
Archeological Museum Narona, Biskupin Archaeological Museum, Mourne Homesteads - Mourne Heritage Trust, Museum Centre Nakhodka, Museum the Menkemaborg, Museums in Sustainable Development / Ha Long Ecomuseum, National Library of Ireland, National Museums Liverpool, Pallant House Gallery, Royal Museums of Art and History, Cinquantenaire Museum, Sarica Church / KA.BA Conservation of Historic Buildings and Architecture Ltd, State Borodino War and History Museum-Reserve, The Abbey of Klosterneuburg, The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum, The European Museum Forum, The German Emigration Center Bremerhaven, The International Museum of the Reformation, The Museum Centre of Hordaland, The Workshops Rail Museum, Triglav National Park
The Best in Heritage 2009 featured projects:
A Mediated Window to the Stockholm Art and Industry Fair of 1897, Art Museum of Estonia, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience, Cultural Tourism Development Center “City-Museum”, Europa Nostra, Fondation des Clefs de St-Pierre, Hunebedcentrum, Netherlands, IMTAL Europe Board of Directors, Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, Manx National Heritage, Isle of Mann, British Isles, Museum of History of Catalonia, Svalbard Museum, The Museum of Communication, Bern, Switzerland, The National Institute for the Protection and Conservation of Monuments and Sites, The Science Museum at the University of Coimbra, Transylvania Trust, XXI Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquites of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The Best in Heritage 2010 featured projects:
Museum of Natural History (Neuchâtel Switzerland), Zeeuws Museum (Middelburg, Netherlands), The Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre (Nuneaton, Leicestershire UK),Museum of the Jaeren Region (Narbo, Norway), Open Air Museum (Arnhem, Nederlands), Idrija Municipal Museum (Idrija, Slovenia), Salzburg Museum (Salzburg, Austria), D.D. Studio (Riga, Latvia), Kerry County Museum (Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland), Craftattract project - Museums of Hrvatsko zagorje (Gornja Stubica, Croatia), BELvue Museum (Brussels, Belgium), Mátra Museum (Gyöngyös, Hungary), The Pier Arts Centre (Orkney UK), Sustainable Aegean Programme (Crete and the Aegean Islands, Greece), Maison du patrimoine médiéval mosan (Bouvignes, Belgium), Culture Ants project (Istanbul, Turkey), Mr W.Richard West Jr. (United States) - Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Mr. Ewald Vanvugt (Nederlands): Robbers’ Paradise or "The European Museum of Overseas Stolen Treasures"
The Best in Heritage 2011 featured projects:
Museu de Portimão (Portimão, Portugal), Workshops Rail Museum (North Ipswich, Australia),Tarbat Discovery Programme (Ross-shire, United Kingdom), Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose (Lessines, Belgium), NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology (Trondheim, Norway), Science Center NEMO (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Museu Agbar de les Aigües (Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain), Ozeaneum (Stralsund, Germany), The Medical Museion (Copenhagen, Denmark), UNESCO Bangkok / Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (Asia - Pacific), Museum of Contraception and Abortion (Vienna, Austria), Ulster Museum (Belfast, United Kingdom), Museum Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), East Eifel Volcano Park (Plaidt, Germany), Discovering the Museum - Brukenthal National Museum (Sibiu, Romania), Faith in Maintainance(London, United Kingdom),Vincent van Gogh: The Letters Project (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Baerwaldbad - Conservation through Vocational Training (Berlin, Germany), Westergasfabriek (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Technical Museum in Brno (Brno, Czech Republic), NUKU Museum of Puppet Arts (Tallinn, Estonia)
External links
- The Best in Heritage website
- The Best in Heritage YouTube Channel
- Europa Nostra website
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