José Gameiro, scientific director of the Portimão Museum, was appointed by the European Museum Forum (EMF- European Forum of Museums) president of the international jury of the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA-European Museum of the Year Award) and Council Museum Award of Europe (CoE), two of the most important awards given to European museums.
It is the first time that a Portuguese person assumes the position of director, in the jury collective composed of a group of 10 members from different European countries.
José Gameiro succeeds the Belgian Wim de Vos, member of the Executive Council of the International Council of Museums (ICOM Internacional), who in November last year was in Portimão, as a special guest of the Autumn Meetings of ICOM Portugal.
In 2010, the Council of Europe Museum of the Year award, created in 1977, was awarded to the Portimão Museum, the second national facility to receive the distinction, in more than 30 years of this award's history. This year, the awards ceremony will take place in Glasgow from 14th to 16th May.
The Museum of Portimão, inaugurated in 2008, is a facility recognized as a cultural example in the region, in the country and in Europe, with several national and European distinctions, among which, the “World of Work” Prize awarded in 2011 in Dortmund, by the German institution DASA.
José Gameiro is scientific director of the Museu de Portimão, has a Master's in Management and Administration of Cultural Heritage from the University of Algarve, has a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, belongs to the direction of the Portuguese Committee of the Council International Museum of ICOM-Portugal, for the 2014/2017 triennium and since 2011 has been a member of the EMYA Jury.
Since 2010, he has been a member of the Museum, Conservation and Restoration and Intangible Heritage Section of the National Council of Culture, for which he was appointed as a “personality of recognized merit”.
He was also one of the founders of the Portuguese Museum Network (2000) and the Algarve Museum Network (2007).
He has been a museologist, trainer and professor in the areas of museology and industrial heritage, being responsible for the coordination and programming of exhibitions, projects and national and European activities at the Museum of Portimão.
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