The Museum of Lagos is nominated for the 2023 European Museum of the Year (EMYA) award, the European Museum Forum announced yesterday. The winner will be announced in May in Barcelona.
In the list of 33 nominees for 2023, there is yet another Portuguese museum: Casa Fernando Pessoa, in Lisbon.
Considered the most important award in the museology sector in Europe, the EMYA award aims to distinguish a museum that contributes to providing its visitors with “a unique atmosphere, with an imaginative exhibition and interpretation and that presents a creative approach to education and social responsibility” .
The Museum of Lagos Dr. José Formosinho, after extensive remodeling works, reopened on October 27 last year, exhibiting collections of Curiosities, Paintings and Craft Industries and exposing a collection that consists of a narrative of the history of Lagos between 1460 and the XNUMXth century, with emphasis on military history and the Church of Santo António, one of the most visited monumental spaces in the whole the Algarve.
The museum is now also equipped with accessible equipment (audio-guides, audio-describers, tactile treadmills, braille tables and pieces to touch) and a bookshop with objects inspired by the collections on display.
Currently, work is underway to expand the Museum, in a new space across the street (where the PSP police station used to be), for the future presentation of the archaeological collection, approaching the history of Lagos and the Western Algarve from its origins to 1460.
The new Museum of Lagos has already been awarded this year, at national level, by APOM, when it received the Honorable Mention in the Best Museum of the Year category.
For the EMYA prize, museums from 47 European countries that have recently opened or have undergone modernization or expansion works in the last three years can compete. In last year's edition, the winner was MindMuseum, in the Netherlands.
The announcement of this year's winners and the formal ceremony of awarding the EMYA awards will take place during the Annual Conference of the European Museum Forum, next May, in Barcelona.
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