From award-winning spaces to immersive history, the European Museum of the Year Awards have thrown a welcome spotlight on some brilliant museums in Germany – and just beyond.
If you're looking for fresh cultural inspiration the European Museum of the Year Awards (EMYA) are a great place to start. Each year, these prestigious awards highlight the most innovative, engaging and socially relevant museums across the continent.
Three German museums were singled out with awards and special commendations this year – and a number of others lie just beyond the country’s borders.
From hands-on sensory exhibitions and child-friendly creative spaces to thought-provoking historical sites and entire towns recreated in detail, this year’s line-up shows that museums today are anything but static.
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