European Museum of the Year Award
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The European Museum of the Year Award is awarded to two kinds of museums:
- Established museums that have undergone modernisation or expansion during the past two years.
- New museums opened to the public in the past two years.
The European Museum of the Year Award winner holds the Henry Moore Trophy for one year.
[edit] Award winners
- 2006: CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, Spain
- 2005: National Heritage Museum, Arnhem, The Netherlands
- 2004: Archaeological Museum of Alicante, Spain
- 2003: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom (specifically for the new British Galleries)
- 2002: Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
- 2001: National Railway Museum, York, United Kingdom
- 2000: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
- 1999: Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer, Issy-lès-Moulineaux, France
- 1998: The Conservation Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- 1997: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey
- 1996: Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
- 1995: The Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1994: National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1993: Alta Museum, Alta, Norway
- 1992: State Museum of Technology and Work, Mannheim, Germany
- 1991: Leventis Museum of Nicosia, Cyprus