1st Edition
Revisiting Museums of Influence Four Decades of Innovation and Public Quality in European Museums
Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the past 40 years. In so doing, the book demonstrates that excellence can be found in museums no matter their subject matter, scale, or source of funding.
Written by leading professionals in the field of museology, who have acted as judges for the European Museum of the Year Award, the portraits describe museums that had, or should have had, an influence on other museums around the world. The portraits aim to capture the moment when this potential was identified, and the introduction will locate the institutions in the wider history of museums in Europe over the period, as well as drawing out common themes of change and innovation that unite the portraits.
Providing many very diverse portraits, Revisiting Museums of Influence captures the immense capacity of the museum to respond to changing societal needs. As a result, the book will be essential reading for students of museology and museum professionals around the world in shaping the museums they wish to create. Scholars and students of art history, archaeology, ethnography, anthropology, cultural and visual studies, architecture, memory studies and history will also find much to interest them.
Part 1 Introduction
Mark O’Neill, Jette Sandahl and Marlen Mouliou
Part 2 Museum Portraits
- Ironbridge Gorge Museum, United Kingdom, 1977
- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 1978
- Catharine Convent State Museum, The Netherlands, 1980
- Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation ‘V. Papandoniou’, Greece, 1981
- Stockholm Music Museum, Sweden, 1981
- The Museum of Framing and Crafts of Calabria, Italy, 1984
- Quarry Bank Mill, United Kingdom, 1984
- Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre, Finland, 1990
- The Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia, Cyprus, 1991
- The Vasa Museum, Sweden, 1992
- Alta Museum, Norway, 1993
- Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Romania, 1996
- The Conservation Centre (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside), United Kingdom, 1998
- Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Russia, 1998
- Guggenheim Museum, Spain, 2000
- In Flanders Fields Museum, Belgium, 2000
- The Chester Beatty Library, Ireland, 2002
- The British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom, 2003
- MARQ Archaeological Museum of Alicante, Spain, 2004
- La Piscine, André Diligent Art and Industrial Museum, France, 2004
- Open-Air Museum, The Netherlands, 2005
- German Emigration Centre, Germany, 2007
- The Museum of Portimão, Portugal, 2010
- Museum of Broken Relationships, Croatia, 2011
- Tampere 1918 – Museum of Finnish Civil War, Finland, 2011
- Madinat al-Zahra Museum, Spain, 2012
- Glasnevin Museum, Ireland, 2012
- The Archaeological Museum of Ioannina, Greece, 2012
- Museum of Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2013
- National Maritime Museum, The Netherlands, 2013
- Museum of Innocence, Turkey, 2014
- The Baksi Museum, Turkey, 2014
- Žanis Lipke Memorial, Latvia, 2014
- The Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands, 2015
- MuCEM - Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, France, 2015
- The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Switzerland, 2015
- The Mary Rose Museum, United Kingdom, 2015
- Sasso San Gottardo Museum, Switzerland, 2015
- European Solidarity Centre, Poland, 2016
- Odderøya Museum Harbour, Norway, 2016
- Benfica FC Museum and FC Porto Museum, Portugal, 2016
- Yaroslavl Art Museum, Russia, 2016
- Mémorial ACTe, Caribbean Centre of Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery, France, 2017
- Museum of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Russia, 2017
- The Old Town Museum, Denmark, 2017
- Museum of Confluences, France, 2017
- The Silesian Museum, Poland, 2017
- Marubi National Museum of Photography, Albania, 2017
- War Childhood Museum, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018
- Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, The Netherlands, 2019
Massimo Negri
Massimo Negri
Ann Nicholls
Peter Schirmbeck
Peter Schirmbeck
Peter Schirmbeck
Peter Schirmbeck
Wim van der Weiden
Wim van der Weiden
Ann Nicholls
Ann Nicholls
J. Patrick Greene
Wim van der Weiden
J. Patrick Greene
Maritta Pitkänen
J. Patrick Greene
Wim van der Weiden
Massimo Negri
Massimo Negri
Wim van der Weiden
Mikhail Gnedovsky
Ann Nicholls
Jouetta van der Ploeg
Sirje Helme
Mikhail Gnedovsky
Jette Sandahl
Jouetta van der Ploeg
Michael Ryan
José Gameiro
Jahangir Selimkhanov
Jette Sandahl
Jette Sandahl
Mikhail Gnedovsky
Michael Ryan
José Gameiro
Jahangir Selimkhanov
Michael Ryan
Jahangir Selimkhanov
Jette Sandahl
Jahangir Selimkhanov
Jahangir Selimkhanov
Michael Ryan
Jette Sandahl
Jahangir Selimkhanov
Jouetta van der Ploeg
Karmele Barandiaran
Marlen Mouliou
Marlen Mouliou
Marlen Mouliou
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Part 3 European Museum of the Year Awards 1977-2019
List of Contributors
Biography
Mark O’Neill is an independent researcher and consultant and former Head of Glasgow Museums; Chair of the European Museum of the Year Jury; Associate Professor, College of Arts, Glasgow University; Research Fellow, Museum Studies, Leicester University; and Adviser, Event Communications, London.
Jette Sandahl has been the founding director for two pioneering new museums, the Women’s Museum of Denmark and the Museum of World Cultures in Sweden. She has served as Director of Exhibitions and Public Programmes at the National Museum of Denmark, and as Director Experience at National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Most recently, she was director of the Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is Chair of the European Museum Forum, which oversees the European Museum of the Year Award.
Marlen Mouliou is Assistant Professor of Museology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-NKUA. From 2010 to 2016, she served as Secretary and Chair of the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities (ICOM-CAMOC). Since 2016, she has been Member of the Panel of Judges for the European Museum of the Year Award and Vice-Chair of the European Academic Heritage Network (UNIVERSEUM).
