MEET THE NATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS
The European Museum Forum National Correspondents (NCs) are EMF representatives in 46 European countries, members of the Council of Europe. The Board of Trustees has a policy for the development of the EMF National Correspondents network. The role of a NC is to facilitate the work of EMF in a particular country. In some countries, depending on their size, difference between the regions, etc., more than one NC can be appointed. The NCs promote EMF in their country and identify potential candidates to apply for the European Museum of the Year Award. The NC liaises closely with local political, professional and media networks to provide important links in the chain of EMF promotional coverage throughout Europe. The NCs also provide the EMF office with support in raising funds to cover costs for judging visits, advise on itineraries and act as secondary point of contact for applicants. The NCs provide network of information between museums throughout Europe; they bring together news of developments and activities that may be conveyed to a wider audience through the European Museum Forum.
In order to get in touch with a national correspondent in your country, please send an email to Pedro Branco, EMF Administrator at emf@europeanforum.museum
ALBANIA
Ilirjan Gjipali
Head of Department of Prehistory, Institute for Archaeology
ARMENIA
Marine Mkrtchyan
ICOM Armenia Secretary
AUSTRIA
Stefania Pitscheider Soroperra
Director, Frauenmuseum Hittisau
AZERBAIJAN
Firahnaz Musayeva
Head of International Relations and Innovation Department, Azerbaijan Carpet Museum
Roya Taghieva
Director of the Azerbaijani State Museum of Carpet and Applied Art
BELGIUM
Alexandre Chevalier
ICOM Belgique Wallonie-Bruxelles
Pieter Van Der Gheynst
Director, Brussels Museums
Vanessa Braekeveld
Education Officer, Royal Library of Belgium
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Alma Leka
Museum advisor, Historical museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Secretary, ICOM Bosnia and Herzegovina
BULGARIA
Stavri Nikolov
Founding Director, Digital Spaces Living Lab (DSLL)
Todor Petov
Assist. Prof. at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Arts of University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski"; Director of the My Museum Foundation
CZECH REPUBLIC
Martina Lehmannová
Managing Director, ICOM Czech Republic Secretariat
CROATIA
Zvjezdana Antos
Senior Curator, Ethnographic Museum of Zagreb
CYPRUS
Despina Pilides, Ph.D. FSA
Curator of Antiquities, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus
Chair of National Committee of ICOM
Efthymia Elston Alphas
Archaeological Officer, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus
DENMARK
Sarah Smed
Head of Department, Danish Welfare Museum
Ole Winther
Head of Museum Department, Danish Agency for Culture
ESTONIA
Mariann Raisma
Director, University of Tartu History Museum
FINLAND
Iina Wahlström
Curator of Exhibitions, Sarka – The Finnish Museum of Agriculture
FRANCE
Benoît de L'Estoile
Professeur attaché en anthropologie politique, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris
Dr. Vincent Guichard
Director General, Bibracte EPPC
GERMANY
Leontine Meijer van Mensch
Director Ethnological Collections, State of Saxony, Germany
GEORGIA
Lana Karaia
ICOM Georgia
Nino Azmaiparashvili
Journalist
GREECE
Anna Vogli
Head of PR, S&B Industrial Minerals S.A.
Yiannis Markakis
Director of the Cretan open-air Museum 'LYCHNOSTATIS"
HUNGARY
Batari Zsuzsanna
Secretary for Scientific Affairs in the Hungarian Open Air Museum, Szentendre
ICELAND
Helga Maureen Gylfadottir
Exhibition Project Manager, Reykjavík City Museum
IRELAND
Liam Bradley
Director, Monaghan County Museum, Monaghan
ITALY
Marianella Pucci
Mediator
Sara Minotti
Consultant, former EMF Administrator
M. Cristina Vannini
Founder and Managing Director of soluzionimuseali-ims, Former EMF Trustee
LATVIA
Ineta Zelca Simansone
Director of Think Tank Creative Museum
LIECHTENSTEIN
Rainer Vollkommer
Director of the Liechtenstein National Museum
MACEDONIA
Rubinco Belceski
Institution for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museums
MALTA
MOLDOVA
Nicoleta Zagura
President of the Art and Heritage UNESCO Club
MONTENEGRO
Ljiljana Zeković
Director of the Art Museum of Montenegro
NETHERLANDS
Adelheid Ponsioen
Consultant
Marije Kool
Business Director, Teylers Museum Haarlem
NORWAY
Liv Ramskjær
Secretary General, Norwegian Museum Association
POLAND
Andrzej Zugaj
National Institute for Museums and Public Collections
PORTUGAL
João Neto
Associação Portuguesa de Museologia (APOM)
Maria Jose Santos
Director, Museum of Penafiel
ROMANIA
Nicoleta Zagura
President of the Art and Heritage UNESCO Club
SERBIA
Nikola Krstovic
Assisting Professor, Belgrade University
SLOVENIA
Bojana Rogelj Skafar
Museum Councillor, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
SPAIN
Karmele Barandiaran
Museu San Telmo
Olga Lopez Miguel
SWEDEN
Medea Sogor Ekner
Chair, ICOM Sweden
SWITZERLAND
Anne-Laure Jean
Swiss Museums Association
TURKEY
Lora Sariaslan
Independent Curator, Istanbul
Murat Ertuğrul Gülyaz
The Directorate of Nevşehir Museum
UKRAINE
Kateryna Smagliy
Director of the Kennan Institute, Kiev
UNITED KINGDOM
Hugh Maguire
Cultural Heritage Advisor
Will Tregaskes
Museum Manager, Cynon Valley Museum