The Best in Heritage - Club of Excellence...
Listed below are projects which were presented in Dubrovnik in the past seven years. They were chosen for their excellence and shown at one place and time to the professional audience that came to listen to their success story, be them proclaimed best nationally or internationally. We have all the reasons to proclaim them an informal Excellence Club. They are centres of professional excellence to be inspired by.
...and Exponatec Cologne
This accumulation of quality caught the attention of the organizers of Exponatec, probably the most important international fair for Museums, Conservation and Heritage. This year will be the third time we join forces to present quality in all its aspects.

We have chosen the best and the best presented projects from previous two years in Dubrovnik and asked them to comment again on their experience, this time in Cologne. Many members of Excellence Club will send their publications and posters and so we demonstrate the quality of their publishing too (click here for 2007 Photo Gallery). As we continue with our core event in Dubrovnik, the Club will obviously grow and serve as a reminder of their inspiring example. The Excellence Club represents a privileged choice to be consulted as the rising number of visits of our site demonstrates (click here for 2007 Programme).

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The Best in Heritage - Excellence Club

• German Emigration Center / Deutsches Auswandererhaus, Bremerhaven, Germany
• Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom
• International Museum of the Reformation, Geneva, Switzerland
• Sarica Church, Cappadocia, Turkey
• Mourne Homesteads - Mourne Heritage Trust, Newcastle, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
• Biskupin Archaeological Museum, Biskupin, Poland
• The Abbey of Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria
• Triglav National Park - The Pocar Farmhouse, Slovenia
• The Workshops Rail Museum / Queensland Museum, North Ipswich, Australia
• State Borodino War and History Museum-Reserve, Borodino, Russia
• Museum Centre of Hordaland, Salhus, Norway
• Royal Museums of Art and History, Cinquantenaire Museum, Brussels, Belgium
• National Museums Liverpool, World Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Museum the Menkemaborg, Uithuizen, Netherlands
• Archeological Museum Narona, Vid - Metkovic, Croatia
• National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
• Professor Amareswar Galla: Ha Long Ecomuseum, Australia / Vietnam
- The 2008 winner as the best presented project




• CosmoCaixa / Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain
• UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards, UNESCO Bangkok, Thailand
• ss Great Britain Trust, Bristol, UK
• Tom Tits Experiment, Södertälje, Sweden
• Omeriye Ottoman Baths, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Juminkeko Foundation, Kuhmo, Finland
• Hat Industry Museum, Sao Joao da Madeira, Portugal
- The 2007 winner as the best presented project




• Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, London, United Kingdom
• International Cultural Center and Museum - IKM, Oslo, Norway
• Museum of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
• Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford - London, United Kingdom
• Fremantle Prison - The Convict Establishment, Fremantle, Western Australia
• University of Art & Design Helsinki (UIAH), Media Lab, Helsinki, Finland
• Museum of Literature Petofi, Budapest, Hungary
• National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Mr. Tjebbe van Tijen / Imaginary Museum Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Netherlands Open Air Museum, Arnhem, Netherlands
• Big Pit, National Mining Museum of Wales, Blaenafon, UK
• Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece
• The National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
• Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London, UK
• Trøndelag Folkemuseum, Sverresborg, Trondheim, Norway
- The 2006 year winner as the best presented project




• Casa Batlló - A. Gaudí, Barcelona, Spain
• Varusschlacht im Osnabrücker Land - Museum und Park Kalkriese, Kalkriese, Germany
• The Heathland Centre, Lygra, Norway
• Bauska Castle Museum, Bauska, Latvia
• Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden
• The M. A. Sholokhov State Museum-Reserve, Veshenskaya, Russia
• Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon, Shildon, UK
• Technical Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
• No 1 Pump Station, Mundaring Weir, Western Australia
• Stichting Monumentenzorg Curaçao, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
• Museum of Nature of Buryatiya, Ulan-Ude, Russia
• Continuum Group, York, UK
• Caesarea development corp. ltd., Caesarea old city, Israel
• Landesmuseum Joanneum / Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
• Vapaavuori Architects / Pekka Vapaavuori
• The James Putnam Organization
• Archaeological Museum of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Trakya University Sultan Bayazid II Kulliye Health Care Museum, Edirne, Turkey
• The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Joe Alon Center - The Museum of Bedouin Culture, Israel
• The House of Terror Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• Old Paper Mill Complex, Warsaw, Poland
• L'Arno Racconta, Florence, Italy
• Landscape Park of the Secovlje Salt-Pans, Piran, Slovenia
• Midt-Troms Museum, Norway
• Museum of Folkart and Tradition, Spittal / Drau, Austria
• Museums to Discover, Société des Musées Québécois, Canada
• The Avesta Works, Sweden
- The 2005 year winner as the best presented project




• Varazdin City Museum : CD ROM Insects, Varazdin, Croatia
• Zagreb City Museum : CD ROM The Dictates of the Time, Zagreb, Croatia
• Desht-i-Art Centre - Minus Six. Exhibition about GULAG, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
• Museum of P.V. Kuznetsov - The Trace of the Garden, Russia
• The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL,USA
• Domvs Romana project - Heritage Malta, Rabat, Malta
• The Worker's Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Andrew Hunter: 11 Fishermen - Lalla Rookh: A poetic Archive
• Antenna Audio International
• Victoria and Albert Museum
• Moderna Museet ( Stockholm, Sweden)
• Canadian Museum of Nature
• National Centre for Citizenship and the Law, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham
• The Goulandris Natural History Museum - Greece
• Laténium, Park and Museum of Archaeology (Hauterive, Switzerland)
• Ærøskøbing, ÆRØ Island, Denmark
• Museo del Aceite "El Lagar del Mudo"  en San Felices de los Gallegos.
- The 2004 year winner as the best presented project




• National Museum of Ireland - Museum of Country Life (Mayo, Ireland)
• Slovenski verski muzej
• Western Australian Maritime Museum (Australia)
• Museum of Textil And Clothing Industry (Textilmuseum)
• The Karelian State Regional Museum (Karelia, Russia)
• Etnografski muzej Split
• Buryat Historical Museum, Ulan-Ude, Buryatia
• Shetland Amenity Trust
• Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Marseille, France)
• Michael Pinsky: "Exhibition PONTIS at Segedunum museum"
• The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
• Duna Museum - Danube Museum, Esztergom, Hungary
• Almond Valley Heritage Trust, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
• Buddenbrook-House, Lübeck, Germany
• Museum of Recent History Celje, Celje, Slovenia
• Museum of Ceramics of Sacavém, Loures, Portugal
• Het Huis van Alijn, Gent, Belgium
• Musée de la civilisation, Québec, Canada
• Rotorua Museum of Art and History, Rotorua, New Zeland
- The 2003 year winner as the best presented project




• Museum Rhein-Schauen, Lustenau, Austria
• The Kierikki Stone Age Centre, Yli-Ii, Finland
• The Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany
• Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, UK
• Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
• Museu Paulista da Universidade de Săo Paulo, Săo Paulo, Brasil
• Svendborg & Omegns Museum, Svendborg, Denmark
• Alimentarium Food Museum, Vevey, Switzerland
• The Herring Era Museum, Siglufjörřur, Iceland
• James Putnam (the author of the book "The Museum as Medium"), London, UK
• Hellenic Cosmos, Athens, Greece
• National Railway Museum, York, United Kingdom
• Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Zagreb City Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
• Segedunum Roman Fort /Tyne and Wear Museums/, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
• Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
• Lions Home, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Theatre Museum, Helsinki, Finland
• Rushean Abbey - Manx National Heritage, Isle of Man
- The 2002 year winner as the best presented project




• Coal Mine Museum, Velenje, Slovenia
• Hungarian Open Air Museum, Szentendre, Hungary
• Science Museum, London, UK
• NS Dokumentationszentrum, Koeln, Germany
• J.M. Humbert: Review of the world's awarded projects by AVICOM
• National Palace web site, Taipei, Taiwan
• L.N.Tolstoy Museum, Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
• Space City, Toulouse, France
• La Piscine, Museum of Art and Industry, Roubaix, France
• Haus der Musik, Wienna, Austria
• Runkelstein Castle, Bozen /Bolzano, Italy
• Liverpool Football Club Museum and Tour Centre, Liverpool, UK
• Visions form museums, Stockholm, Sweden
• Gernika Peace Museum, Basque Country, Spain
• Damir Fabijanić: Dubrovnik before and after - a photographer's view
• Julian Walker (presentation of art projects)

Excellence Club at Exponatec - Photo Gallery

Koelnmesse

The Best in Heritage - Excellence Club at Exponatec, Cologne
31.10. - 03.11. 2007


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