Mon 20 September 2021:
The European Museum Academy’s Luigi Micheletti Prize has been granted to Berlin’s Futurium, a futuristic museum.
The jury really liked the Futurium’s “clear presentation of crucial future topics and artistic installations,” they said when announcing the prize winners in The Hague on Saturday evening.
“It appeals as an integrated institution that blends science, politics, business, the arts and the social field perfectly together in workshops, discussions and events.”
With more than 5000 m² on three floors, the museum is divided into three main areas: Exhibition, Forum and Lab. The Exhibition area presents various different options for the future in the thinking spaces dealing with Humans, Nature and Technology.
The content and design of the exhibition are intended to inspire us to develop our own standpoint on contentious topics. The Forum is intended to encourage communal dialogue in a meeting of science, politics, culture and civil society. The Lab is a place for trying things out, where visitors of all ages can play with future tech and work on their own inventions in creative workshops.
The Futurium’s building on the Spreebogen, designed by the architect Richter Musikowski, resembles a sculpture that is unfolded to the front and rear to form partially covered forecourts in front of the two main entrances. With solar panels on the roof and a rainwater utilisation system, the Futurium is a nearly zero energy building setting a leading example in sustainability. It is largely supported by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research.
The Museum Academy presents three non-endowed prizes for various categories each year.
The National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest will get the DASA Prize this year. The panel applauded the museum’s teaching programs, which showed guts and an uncompromising attitude toward current challenges, among other things.
The Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Craft and Design in Kolding, Denmark, received the Art Museum Prize. The museum was hailed as a cultural trailblazer.
In this area, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich was also listed with a special recommendation.
The award ceremony was only held online this year due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The European Museum Academy is a non-profit organization established in The Hague that represents 44 nations. Its goal is to encourage the growth of museums as social change agents.
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