Luigi Micheletti Award
The Luigi Micheletti Award
The Luigi Micheletti Award is the European prize for innovative museums in the world of contemporary history, industry and science. 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 be...
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In a ceremony held in the Municipal Council of Timisoara (Romania), the LUIGI MICHELETTI AWARD 2023 was presented to FLUGT, the Denmark Museum of Refugee.
The museum is in the restored hospital of a Second World War refugee camp, with an elegant new space, an exterior structure in iron with a wood interior, which blends quite naturally and very harmoniously. The exhibitions have been designed by Tinker Imagineers, who were also r...
On Saturday 18 September the winners of three Awards by the European Museum Academy (EMA) were announced during an Read all »
2023 Winner
The museum is in the restored hospital of a Second World War refugee camp, with an elegant new space, an exterior structure in iron with a wood interior, which blends quite naturally and very harmoniously. The exhibitions have been designed by Tinker Imagineers, who were also responsible for the nearby museum, Tirpitz. The indoor part includes a traditional exhibition with historic photographs, an astonishing model made by refugees just after the end of the war, and a cinema where historic documentary films are shown. Contemporary stories of refugees from Germany, Hungary, Vietnam, Afgha...
