The Best in Heritage is an international annual survey of awarded museum, heritage and conservation projects. The survey was launched in 2003 by the European Heritage Association from Zagreb under leadership from professor Tomislav Šola. The event is being held every year in the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia at the end of September. The main aim of the conference is to give prize winning projects from the preceding year all the professional and media attention possible and to offer exchange of professional experiences, contacts and information. The event serves to identify and promote the best museum, heritage and conservation projects in the world. This event brings together museum and heritage professionals (architects, designers, consultants, information specialists, suppliers, tourism experts, media people etc.), various institutions and professionals from a broad range of practice and interest in the field of heritage[1]. Since 2009, the conference has been organized in partnership with Europa Nostra.[2][3]
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The Best in Heritage is an annual presentation of awarded museum, heritage, and conservation projects. The representatives of some 20 projects explain why their achievements were proclaimed the best in the previous year, either internationally or nationally, and received a prize or award. Organizers will just let them present themselves and will neither evaluate nor give awards. The aim is to present quality projects in anything concerning the care and communication of heritage.[4]
The main patron is ICOM (International Council of Museums), other patrons are: UNESCO Venice Office, ICOMOS, ICCROM, World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM), International Federation of Library Associations, the City of Dubrovnik and the Croatian Ministry of Culture. The Museums of Dubrovnik and Croatian National Committee of ICOM are a supporting organisations. [5]
Around 22 hand-picked projects and institutions which have received national or international awards in the previous year are presented by their authors or institution directors followed by discussions, exhibitions and receptions.
Abílio Barreto Historical Museum, Alimentarium Food Museum, Almond Valley, Heritage Trust, Buddenbrook-House, Duna Museum - Danube Museum, FAI Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, Imperial War Museum North, Musée de la civilisation, Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo,Museum of Ceramics of Sacavém, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Museum of Recent History - Celje, Open Museum Association, Rotorua Museum of Art and History, Svendborg & Omegns Museum, Tallinn Town Hall, The British Museum, The Chester Beatty Library, The Herring Era Museum, The House of Alijn (Belgium), The Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, The Kierikki Stone Age Centre, The Museum Rhein-Schauen at Lustenau/Austria, The Royal Navy Submarine Museum
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ethnographic Museum of Split, Karelian State Local Lore Museum, Laténium - Archaeology Park and Museum, Moderna Museet, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Museo del Aceite “El Lagar del Mudo”, Museum of Textile and Clothing Industry (Budapest), National Centre for Citizenship and the Law (NCCL) at the Galleries of Justice, National Museum of Ireland, Pontis, Shetland Amenity Trust, Slovenski verski muzej / Slovene Museum of Religion, The Ærøskøbing Heritage Society, The Goulandris Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Western Australian Maritime Museum
Andrew Hunter: Lalla Rookh Project - A Poetic Archive, BRC Imagination Arts BV, Comune di Firenze, Ufficio Tematico Centro Storico, Desht-e-Art Center (SO “Laboratory of Social Development”), Heritage Malta, Kultur Avesta, MARQ - Archaeological Museum of the Province of Alicante, Midt-Troms museum (Central-Troms Museum), Museum of Bedouin Culture, Museum of Folkart and Tradition, Porcia Castle, Old Paper Mill in Konstancin near Warsaw, Saratov State Museum named after A. N. Radischev, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Société des musées québécois, The House of Terror Museum, The Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum of Piran, The Workers’ Museum in Copenhagen, Trakya University Complex of Sultan Bayezid II Health Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Varaždin City Museum - “Kukci / Insects CD ROM”, Zagreb City Museum
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Anne Brake, National Trust of Australia (WA), Art Museum of Estonia, ATAT & Continuum Group, Bauska Castle Museum, Casa Batlló, Landesmuseum Joanneum, M. A. Sholokhov State Museum-Reserve, Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki, Greece), Museum of Nature of Buryatiya, National Library of the Czech Republic, National Railway Museum, York, Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, Sverresborg, Trøndelag Folkemuseum, Technical Museum in Brno - Rebirth of a Museum, The Heathland Centre, The Stichting Monumentenzorg Curaçao, University College London, University of the Arts, London, Värmlands Museum, Varusschlacht im Osnabrücker Land - Museum und Park Kalkriese
Alba Plata Management Office, Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, CosmoCaixa, Fremantle Prison - The Convict Establishment, International Cultural Center and Museum (IKM), Juminkeko Foundation, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Museum of Literature "Petőfi", Museum of Natural Sciences, Royal Observatory, ss Great Britain Trust, The National Museum of Iceland, The Omeriye Ottoman Baths, Tom Tits Experiment, UNESCO Bangkok, University Fernando Pessoa, Voices for The Map of Mexico 1550, What is the best in Museums?
Archeological Museum Narona, Biskupin Archaeological Museum, Mourne Homesteads - Mourne Heritage Trust, Museum Centre Nakhodka, Museum the Menkemaborg, Museums in Sustainable Development / Ha Long Ecomuseum, National Library of Ireland, National Museums Liverpool, Pallant House Gallery, Royal Museums of Art and History, Cinquantenaire Museum, Sarica Church / KA.BA Conservation of Historic Buildings and Architecture Ltd, State Borodino War and History Museum-Reserve, The Abbey of Klosterneuburg, The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum, The European Museum Forum, The German Emigration Center Bremerhaven, The International Museum of the Reformation, The Museum Centre of Hordaland, The Workshops Rail Museum, Triglav National Park
A Mediated Window to the Stockholm Art and Industry Fair of 1897, Art Museum of Estonia, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience, Cultural Tourism Development Center “City-Museum”, Europa Nostra, Fondation des Clefs de St-Pierre, Hunebedcentrum, Netherlands, IMTAL Europe Board of Directors, Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, Manx National Heritage, Isle of Man, British Isles, Museum of History of Catalonia, Svalbard Museum, The Museum of Communication, Bern, Switzerland, The National Institute for the Protection and Conservation of Monuments and Sites, The Science Museum at the University of Coimbra, Transylvania Trust, XXI Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquites of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Museum of Natural History (Neuchâtel Switzerland), Zeeuws Museum (Middelburg, Netherlands), The Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre (Nuneaton, Leicestershire UK), Museum of the Jaeren Region (Narbo, Norway), Open Air Museum (Arnhem, Nederlands), Idrija Municipal Museum (Idrija, Slovenia), Salzburg Museum (Salzburg, Austria), D.D. Studio (Riga, Latvia), Kerry County Museum (Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland), Craftattract project - Museums of Hrvatsko zagorje (Gornja Stubica, Croatia), BELvue Museum (Brussels, Belgium), Mátra Museum (Gyöngyös, Hungary), The Pier Arts Centre (Orkney UK), Sustainable Aegean Programme (Crete and the Aegean Islands, Greece), Maison du patrimoine médiéval mosan (Bouvignes, Belgium), Culture Ants project (Istanbul, Turkey), Mr W.Richard West Jr. (United States) - Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Mr. Ewald Vanvugt (Nederlands): Robbers’ Paradise or "The European Museum of Overseas Stolen Treasures"
Museu de Portimão (Portimão, Portugal), Workshops Rail Museum (North Ipswich, Australia), Tarbat Discovery Programme (Ross-shire, United Kingdom), Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose (Lessines, Belgium), NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology (Trondheim, Norway), Science Center NEMO (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Museu Agbar de les Aigües (Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain), Ozeaneum (Stralsund, Germany), The Medical Museion (Copenhagen, Denmark), UNESCO Bangkok / Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (Asia - Pacific), Museum of Contraception and Abortion (Vienna, Austria), Ulster Museum (Belfast, United Kingdom), Museum Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), East Eifel Volcano Park (Plaidt, Germany), Discovering the Museum - Brukenthal National Museum (Sibiu, Romania), Faith in Maintenance (London, United Kingdom), Vincent van Gogh: The Letters Project (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Baerwaldbad - Conservation through Vocational Training (Berlin, Germany), Westergasfabriek (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Technical Museum in Brno (Brno, Czech Republic), NUKU Museum of Puppet Arts (Tallinn, Estonia)[6]