Luigi Micheletti Award
The Luigi Micheletti Award
The Luigi Micheletti Award is the European prize for innovative museums in the world of industry, science and technics. It is one of the leading activities of the Luigi Micheletti Foundation.
Up to and including the 2010 competition, candidates were drawn from the list of applicants for the European Museum of the Year Award, which is administered by the European Museum Forum. The EMYA candidates are either new museums, established for the firsttime during the past two or three years, or older museums which have been substanti...
News
At a ceremony held in the State Textile and Industry Museum in Augsburg, Germany (winner of the 2011 Award), the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, UK was announced as the winner of the 2012 Micheletti Award. The trophy was presented to the museum’s director, Lawrence Fitzgerald, by HRH Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg. Representing the Luigi Micheletti Foundation were René Capovin, Uggero de Miranda and Giovanni Tampalini. A strong de...
2011 Winner
The South German city of Augsburg was one of the most important centres of the textile industry in Europe and the museum opened in January 2010 in the halls of the former Augsburg worsted yarn spinning mill, founded in 1836. The permanent exhibition takes the visitor through three main routes.
The first route explores the textile production process, from the raw textile fibres, the spinning, weaving and refining stages, right up to the tailored item of clothing. Here in the museum’s own weaving mill, historical looms demonstrated by former textile workers produce a vast arr...