Registration for the annual conference and award ceremony EMYA Awards – European Museum of the Year Award 2024, which takes place in Portimão from the 1st to the 4th of May, has already opened and can be done online until the 21st of April.
This is the first time that the Algarve city is hosting these awards for the European Museums of the year.
Registration must be done by filling out the registration form available on the website, which guarantees attendance and access to the detailed program of the annual conference and the EMYA 2024 award ceremony, as well as the itineraries of cultural visits and respective registrations.
The website provides practical and informative menus about Portimão, which receives hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. Furthermore, given that it is the host of EMYA 2024, «the city intends to reflect within the framework of European museology an extension of this dimension of welcoming and welcoming, so characteristic of the people of Portimão».
In this sense, there will be two locations for the event: on the 1st of May, the Portimão Museum will welcome leading professionals in the sector.
Then, on the 2nd and 3rd, TEMPO – Teatro Municipal de Portimão will be the main stage of the conference, which has as its theme “Museums in search of social impact”, as well as the awards ceremony, scheduled for 19pm on the 00th. of May.
The conference “Museums in search of social impact” proposes to “constitute itself as a space for dialogue, discussion and sharing of experiences, ideals and innovation and cooperation projects on the impact of museums and their professionals”.
Through presentations and debate panels, interviews and workshops, the event will also be “a moment of debate and reflection on the various visions, missions and potential of European museums, not only in the present, but on the future horizon, inserted in the continuous museological evolution International".
For two days, museums will have the opportunity to present themselves, revealing their dimension as dynamic, historical and socially relevant spaces and irreplaceable structures in the cultural and scientific domain, in addition to addressing their strategies for better accessibility, proximity and social inclusion and community, based on European democratic principles and values.
Organized by EMF – European Museum Forum, in collaboration with the Council of Europe, the 47th edition of these awards has 50 nominees from 24 European countries, including three Portuguese candidates (Museu da Covilhã, Museu do Tesouro Real and Núcleo Arqueológico da Rua dos Correeiros), and will bring together the EMYA community, including former candidates and winners, partners, jury members and friends, in addition to this year's nominees.
«Given the great diversity of museums present, this is an excellent opportunity to learn about the uniqueness and relevance of each one, the extent of their good practices, the forms of relationship with the public and the main challenges they face», explains the Municipality of Portimão.
Since receiving the “Council of Europe Museum” Award in 2010, the Portimão Museum has been establishing a close European connection with the EMF. In 2018, another partnership agreement established between the Municipality of Portimão and the European Museum Forum, allowed the installation of the headquarters of the EMF secretariat and its historical archive in the Portimão Museum and its Documentation Center.
In this way, the entire history of this European award and the documentation of the hundreds of candidate, nominated and awarded museums, over 42 years of existence (1977-2019), from Liverpool, Berlin and Milan will be brought together in Portimão, where they will be organized and prepared for subsequent public access.
As a result of this partnership, the “Museu Portimão” Award was also created, a new category whose objective is to distinguish the most welcoming and accessible museum in Europe every year.
The Portimão Museum, which opened its doors in 2008, is housed in a former fish canning factory and presents itself as a permanent observatory and a cultural mediation structure to investigate, conserve, interpret, disseminate and value the most relevant material and intangible aspects of history, heritage, territory, memory and identity of the local and regional community, in its interaction with the world.
Winner of the Council of Europe Museum Prize in 2010, since 2018 he has been the home- headquarters of EMYA, housing the secretariat and archive, with the scientific director of the Portimão Museum, José Gameiro, serving as jury since 2012, of which he was president between 2015 and 2018.
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