THE KENNETH HUDSON AWARD FOR INSTITUTIONAL COURAGE AND PROFESSIONAL INTEGRITY
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.
© Estonian National Museum
2022: Wayne Modest, Nanette Snoep, Laura van Broekhoven and Léontine Meijer-van Mensch
The Kenneth Hudson Award 2022 is given jointly to four individuals, who as scholars and as museum directors actively contribute towards developing a new, global ethics for museums. With a good deal of personal courage, they have welcomed these highly contested and politicized questions and embedded them solidly in their museum practices, giving space for and voice to points of view that have been continuously and systematically denied. The European Museum Forum is of course aware that behind, beside and with these four individuals stand a multitude of others, not least in other continents and in the diasporic communities in Europe, but also in other European museums. So let the bestowal of this Kenneth Hudson Award be symbolic and emblematic.
For more information: EMYA2022 Winners Brochure
Museum Architecture © CosmoCaixa
Visual and acoustic voices in four languages at the beginning of the museum’s main exhibition © House of Austrian History
2021: CosmoCaixa
Barcelona, Spain
2020: House of Austrian History
Vienna, Austria
2019: World Museum Vienna
Vienna, Austria
2018: Estonian National Museum
Tartu, Estonia
2017: Museum of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin
Yekaterinburg, Russia
2016: Micropia
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
Geneva, Switzerland
2014: Zanis Lipke Memorial
Riga, Latvia
2013: Batalha Municipal Community Museum
Batalha, Portugal
2012: Glasnevin Museum
Dublin, Ireland
2011: Museum of Broken Relationships
Zagreb, Croatia
2010: Museum of Contraception and Abortion
Vienna, Austria
