As societies are increasingly openly conflicted, politicized and polarized, the obligations grow correspondingly for museums to challenge established truths and mainstream positions, to defy power, to insist on accountability, and take transparent and ethical stands - not least pertaining to issues of social justice - that give space for or voice to contested and silenced stories.
The Kenneth Hudson Award for Institutional Courage and Professional Integrity is named in honour of the irreverent and critical perspective of Kenneth Hudson, the founder of EMYA, and is given by the European Museum Forum board to a museum, a group or an individual – not necessarily an EMYA candidate - to celebrate courageous, at times controversial, museum practices that challenge and expand common perceptions of the role and responsibilities of museums in society.
Winners
2024 - Ihor Poshyvailo, Director General of the National Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and Revolution of Dignity Museum (Maidan Museum), Ukraine
Winners’ Brochure 2024
2023 - 23,5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory (Istanbul, Türkiye)
hrantdink.org/en/site-of-memory
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2022 - Wayne Modest, Nanette Snoep, Laura van Broekhoven and Léontine Meijer-van Mensch
For more information:
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2021 - CosmoCaixa (Barcelona, Spain)
2020 - House of Austrian History (Vienna, Austria)
For more information:
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