The Council of Europe Museum Award 2013 was awarded to the Liverpool Museum (United Kingdom) by the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
This museum will now be the new guardian, for one year, of the bronze sculpture «The Woman with Beautiful Breasts», by Joan Miró, which, from the Portimão Museum, which won that award in 2010, was transferred to the Cologne Museum and from there to Liverpool.
The official award ceremony will take place in March 2013 in Strasbourg.
José Gameiro, director of the Museum of Portimão, participated in the choice of the Council of Europe Museum Award 2013. He was invited to join the jury of the European Museum Forum, which evaluates all the European museum structures in the competition.
The prize is decided by PACE on the basis of a shortlist presented by the jury of the European Museum Forum and is part of the European Museum of the year awards.
Recent winners include the Portimão Museum (2010), the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany (2012), and the Zeeuws Museum in the Netherlands (2009).
The Liverpool Museum traces the social, economic and political history of a city that is one of the most socially diverse in all of Britain.
According to the Committee, the museum has an enormous capacity to attract people of all ages, backgrounds and educational backgrounds and strongly and convincingly promotes the core values of the Council of Europe and the importance of "living together in dignity".
The Committee stresses that the Liverpool Museum provides exemplary recognition of human rights in museum practice.
Interaction with the local community is excellent, with numerous activities involving children, youth, families and seniors. It promotes mutual respect between ethnically and socially diverse strata of society, addresses human rights through contemporary debates and dialogue, and maintains an open and inclusive policy focused on building bridges between cultures in all aspects of its work.
The Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded every year since 1977 to a museum believed to have made a significant contribution to understanding Europe's cultural heritage.
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