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EMYA

The award was inaugurated in 1973 by the Council of Europe. The candidates are new museums or museums after radical reorganization or extension. The main goal was to discover and promote new ideas in European museums.

In 1996, EMYA was awarded for the first time to an East European museum, the Romanian Peasant Museum from Bucharest. His Majesty Queen Fabiola handed the EMYA trophy, The Egg by Henry Moore to the director Horia Bernea. In his speech, the EMYA president, Kenneth Hudson, said:

“My colleagues and myself are convinced that the Big Prize of this year must be given to the Romanian Peasant Museum from Bucharest. The wonderfull collections of objects are presented and interpreted with exceptional imagination and skill, in an original style with great impact on the visitor. The director of the museum is loved and respected by his colleagues and his artistic formation has helped him build a museum that goes beyond the traditional level of display and creates a whole more important then the sum of parts. Horia Bernea is an exceptional man and we are sure that the European museum world will hear much more of him in the future. He, as well as the museum, is destined to have an international influence.”

Other awards:
Margareta Sterian Award for best exhibition (1993, 2001 and 2003)
“Hospitality Award” (Ministry of Tourism), 1995
National Cultural Patrimony Awards: “Horia Bernea” National Museography Award for the exhibition “Work. Fire – Water – Wind, 2002; “Vasile Dragut” Award, 2002;
“Al.Tzigara-Samurcas'' Award, 2003.
National Committee ICOM Award for the exhibition “Tiles”, 2002.
Multimedia Award for the CD series “Face to face”, 2002.
Multimedia Award for the “Info Kiosk”, 2003.
“Mihai Bacescu” Award for the patrimony obtained in 2004 for the project promoting the cultural patrimony in Tara Hategului, in partnership with GeoMedia Center, Geology Museum and “Grigore Antipa” Museum.
Honorable mention awarded by the National Committee ICOM (2005) for the thematic concept of the exhibition Icons. Spiritual abstractions displayed at Chateau –Edgar Mèlik Museum, Cabriés, France.

Pe aripile timpului




Sound exhibition
17 septembrie 2011 – 5 februarie 2012, Sala Oaspeţi

Descarca Video:FLV


All music is to some extent affected by the spirit of the times. It is both the product of a tradition and the expression of an age. Drawing on the International Archives of Folk Music (Archives internationales de musique populaire, AIMP), which were built up at the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva (MEG) during the 1940s and 1950s by the well-known Romanian ethnomusicologist Constantin Brăiloiu (1893–1958), the exhibition “In tune with the times” (L’air du temps) addresses a major issue: identity and memory in the era of globalization.

“In tune with the times” recalls the challenges of collecting, preserving and utilizing musical archives. A statement on cultural diversity, it reveals the intimate and universal connection between music and emotions. Visitors are called on to immerse themselves in a world of sound subjected to multiple and diverse influences. The world changes, and music along with it, adapting to the circumstances in response to our needs and expectations. So what makes a melody genuinely authentic? Respect for traditional forms? Its power and its impact on listeners? Or simply its performers’ intentions?

“In tune with the times” explores these questions in unusual ways. From the village melodies of the past to the manele, modern songs that use state-of-the-art technology, it presents Romanian folk music through a spectacular audiovisual remix. The exhibition ends with the hits, these catchy tunes that saturate our audio space and are engraved on our memories without our realizing it.

Music, from this point of view, is both the image of society and the product of culture. In this exhibition, Constantin Brăiloiu and the example of Romanian folk music are both the leitmotiv and the lens through which visitors are given an anthropological view of the universality of music.
 

Sponsori: Novartis, ABB, Holcim, Franke, Vulcain, Heidi, Nestle, Rabo, Sika, Swiss International Air Lines, Audioconsult, Geberit, HBA, Mattig Management Partners, Swiss Arms, Valvis, AVAudioSys
Sponsor special: Réalise – Entreprise d’insertion (www.realise.ch), căruia îi mulţumim pentru generosul sprijin
Co-producător: TVR Cultural
Parteneri media: Radio România, Radio România Actualităţi, Radio România Cultural, RFI, 24-FUN, Observator cultural, Cultura, Port.ro, HotNews.ro, WebPR.ro, LiterNet, www.Calendarevenimente.ro, Zeppelin, Igloo, www.OnlineGallery.ro, www.ArtClue.net, www.121.ro, www.LumeBuna.ro, www.metropotam.ro, www.modernism.ro, www.DacicCool.ro, www.SensoTV.ro, www.TravelMix.ro, www.bucuresti365.ro, www.lacasuriortodoxe.ro, www.comunicatedepresa.ro, Cocor Media Channel
Parteneri: Artex, Festivalul George Enescu
 


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