European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2025

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Conservation & Adaptive Reuse

• Tower Roof of the Church of St. Mauritius, Spitz an der Donau, Austria

• Antwerp City Hall, Belgium

• Hôtel Solvay, Brussels, Belgium

• Nicosia Old Municipal Market, Cyprus

• Kambones 1615 Historic House, Naxos, Greece

• EC1 Łódź – City of Culture Complex, Poland

• National Museum of Resistance and Freedom – Peniche Fortress, Portugal

• Puerta de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

Research

• The Heritage Trees Project, Belgium

• Odeuropa, Netherlands / France / Germany / Italy / Slovenia / UK

• Glacier Archaeology Programme – Secrets of the Ice, Norway

• IS-LE: Islamic Legacy, pan-European (coordinated in Spain)

Education, Training & Skills

• European Heritage Volunteers Programme, Germany

• “Saber Fazer” Programme, Portugal

• ASTRA Center for Activities and Regional Resources, Sibiu, Romania

• Pro Monumenta – Preventive Maintenance of Monuments, Slovakia

 

Citizens’ Engagement & Awareness-raising

• The Art of Protecting Bedechka, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

• Baltic Sea 3D Wrecksite Ontology, Finland

• Notre-Dame de Paris Restoration Outreach, France

• Donation Campaign “The Culture of Ukraine has no Means of Defence”, Lithuania / Ukraine

• Małopolska Culture Heritage Days, Poland

• Almalaguês – Weaving the Future from the Tapestry of Time, Coimbra, Portugal

• Hedgehog’s Home – Inventing a Better World, Serbia

• Casa Batlló: Integrating Neurodiversity in World Heritage, Barcelona, Spain

• All Together Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine

Heritage Champions

• Prof. em. Peter Latz, Germany

• Inge Bisgaard, Greenland / Denmark

Grand Prix 2025

• Antwerp City Hall, Belgium (Conservation & Adaptive Reuse)

• Glacier Archaeology Programme – Secrets of the Ice, Norway (Research)

• Pro Monumenta – Preventive Maintenance of Monuments, Slovakia (Education, Training & Skills)

• Hedgehog’s Home – Inventing a Better World, Serbia (Citizens’ Engagement & Awareness-raising)

• Inge Bisgaard, Greenland / Denmark (Heritage Champions)

Public Choice Award 2025

• Puerta de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

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European Museum Forum

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European Museum of the Year Award 2025

• Manchester Museum, Manchester, United Kingdom

 

Council of Europe Museum Prize 2025

• Euskararen Etxea – The House of the Basque Language, Bilbao, Spain

 

Kenneth Hudson Award 2025 (Institutional Courage & Professional Integrity)

• Nini Sanadiradze, former General Director of the Union of Tbilisi Museums, Tbilisi, Georgia

 

Meyvaert Museum Prize for Environmental Sustainability 2025

• MUZOO, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

 

Portimão Museum Prize for Welcoming, Inclusion & Belonging 2025

• Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Türkiye

 

Silletto Prize for Community Participation & Engagement 2025

• Alvor Lifeguard Interpretative Centre (CISA), Portimão, Portugal

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European Museum Academy

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Luigi Micheletti Award 2025

• Obersalzberg Documentation Center, Berchtesgaden, Germany 

 

DASA Award 2025

• Salon Stolz, Graz, Austria 

 

Art Museum Award 2025

• Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland

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Art Fund Prize

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Museum of the Year 2025

• The Living Museum of the North Beamish, Beamish, United Kingdom

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Museums + Heritage Awards 2025

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Innovator Of The Year

• Anoxart Ltd Insect Eradication For Artworks And Heritage Collections, London

 

Visitor Accessibility Award

• Wellcome Collection Putting Accessibility At The Heart Of Wellcome Collection, London

 

Sector Impact Award

• Heritage Open Days: 30 Years Of England’s Largest Festival Of History And Culture, London

 

Visitor Welcome Award

• Migration Museum Welcome To The Migration Museum, London

 

Sustainable Project Of The Year

• Railworld Wildlife Haven Entertain And Educate About Our Amazing Planet, Peterborough

 

Sustainable Project Of The Year

• Stourbridge Glass Museum Eco‑Friendly Upcycled Glass Exhibition In New Eco Museum, Stourbridge

 

Best Use Of Digital – International

• Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center / East City Films The Journey Back – VR Experiences, Skokie, Illinois, United States

 

Best Use Of Digital – UK

• London Museum’s New Website – Using AI To Power Content Relationships Between Objects & Stories, London

 

Team Of The Year

• National Galleries Of Scotland People Team, Edinburgh

 

Community Engagement Programme Of The Year

• Suffolk Archives (Suffolk County Council) Arrivals: Celebrating Migration To Suffolk, Ipswich, Suffolk

 

International Exhibition Of The Year

• Museum Of Transport And Technology (MOTAT) Te Puawānanga Science And Technology Centre, Auckland

 

Learning Programme Of The Year

• Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester SENsory Atelier Programme, Leicester

 

Partnership Of The Year

• Pitt Rivers Museum, University Of Oxford The Maasai Living Cultures Project, Oxford

 

Restoration Or Conservation Project Of The Year

• Crystal Palace Subway Restoration / The Landmark Trust Calverley Old Hall, London / Calverley, West Yorkshire

 

Shop Of The Year

• Portsmouth City Council – The D‑Day Story D‑Day 80 Shop Refit, Portsmouth

 

Volunteers Of The Year

• Derbyshire Scout Archaeology Team Morgause Lomas, Derbyshire

 

Permanent Exhibition Of The Year

• Showtown Blackpool With Casson Mann, Blackpool

 

Temporary Or Touring Exhibition Of The Year / Budget More Than £80k

• British Library, University Of Westminster & Freehaus Beyond The Bassline: 500 Years Of Black British Music, London

 

Temporary Or Touring Exhibition Of The Year / Budget Less Than £80k

• Ferens Art Gallery Jason Wilsher Mills: Are We There Yet, Hull

 

Marketing + Communications Campaign Of The Year

• Royal Armouries TikTok Debut, Leeds

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Family Friendly Museum Awards 2025

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Best Small Museum / Overall Winner 2025

• Experience Barnsley Museum & Discovery Centre, Barnsley (South Yorkshire) 

 

Best Medium Museum 2025

• V&A Dundee, Dundee 

 
Best Large Museum 2025
The Burrell Collection, Glasgow 

 

Best Accessible Museum 2025

• Eureka! The National Children’s Museum, Halifax

 

Best Museum Youth Project 2025

• Social Justice — Black Cultural Archives, London (Brixton)

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VriendenLoterij Museumprijs 2025

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Associação Portuguesa de Museologia

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Portugese Museum of the Year 2025

• Serralves Museum

 

International Project Award 2025

• Faro Municipal Museum – Cities of Knowledge

• Sesimbra Maritime Museum – Coastal Cultural Center | Sesimbra: A Bridge Between Portugal and Norway

 

Safeguarding, Conservation and Restoration in Cultural Heritage Award 2025

• MUDE – Museum of Design – MUDA Building: Heritage Activated by Museology and Design

 

Digital Project and Content Award 2025

• Faro Municipal Museum – Virtual Exhibition of Italian Cinema Posters

• Regional Directorate of Culture of the Azores – From Shadow to Carnation: April 25 through the Eyes of Cultural Heritage

 

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Swedish Museum Association / ICOM Sweden

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Museum of the Year 2025

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Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport Austria

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Österreichische Museumspreis 2025

• Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz, Linz

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Živa Awards

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The Best Slavic Museum 2025

• The Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb, Croatia

 

Živa Award for the Best Slavic Heritage Site 2025

• NI Institute for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum – Ohrid, Ohrid, North Macedonia

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Finnish Museums Association & ICOM Finland

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Museum of the Year 2025

• Lahti City Museums, Lahti 

 

Communication Act of the Year

• Renaming Nootti – Museum of Finnish-Russian Relations, Helsinki 

• “From Tokyo to Tapiola” exhibition, Leikki – The Museum of Play, Espoo 

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Museum Card Special Awards 2025

 

All-Time Favorite Museum Award

• Ateneum Art Museum

 

Children’s Favorite Destination award

• Heureka – the Finnish Science Centre

 

All-Time Museum Discovery Award

• Finnish Motorcycle Museum

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Norwegian Museum Association

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Norwegian Museum of The Year 2025

• The National Museum, Oslo

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Museums Association United Kingdom

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Best Museums Change Lives Project 2025

• Birmingham Museums Trust – Citizens’ Jury

 

Best Small Museum Project 2025

• Timespan (Helmsdale Heritage and Arts Society) – The People’s Mobile Archive

 
Equitable Partnership Award 2025

• Horniman Museum and Gardens with partners, creatives and young people – The Great Kingdom of Benin

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Radical Changemaker Award 2025

• Elizabeth Scott, Guildhall Art Gallery

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European Cultural Tourism Network / Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism Awards 2025

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Resilience in Sustainable Cultural Tourism Destinations

• Transylvanian Highlands – Responsible Tourism in the Saxon Cultural Landscape: A Path to Community Resilience, by Asociația Colinele Transilvaniei, Romania

 

Wine and Gastronomy Tourism based on eno-culinary heritage preservation

• Tasty Tartu – A Month Full of Flavours, invigorating the Low Season, by Visit Tartu / Tartu County Tourism Foundation, Estonia

 

Digitalisation in Smart Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Creativity

• Time travel was once the stuff of science fiction, by Associação Rota Histórica das Linhas de Torres, Portugal

 

Transnational Thematic Tourism Products involving Culture and Heritage

• European Route of Historic Gardens – A Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, by European Route of Historic Gardens (ERHG), Spain-based association

 

Cultural Tourism Services for All

• Living Heritage for All: Revitalizing Rural Museums through Inclusive, Authentic, and Sustainable Cultural Tourism in the Laona Plateau, by Kathikas, Ineia, Droushia, and Arodes Synergy, Pafos region, Cyprus

 

Public Choice Award

• Via Transilvanica: The Road That Unites, by Tasuleasa Social Association, Romania

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ICOM Russia Museum Olymp Awards 2025

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​​Exhibition (Permanent)

• State Museum-Reserve Gatchina | Arms Gallery, Saint Petersburg

 

Temporary Exhibition

• Perm Local History Museum | The City Needs a Hero, Perm

 

Museum for Children

• State Museum-Reserve Kulikovo Field | Archaeology for Children, Tula Region

 

 

Museum Event

• Architectural-Ethnographic Museum Semenkovo | Theatrical Seasons of the Semenkovo Museum, Vologda

 

Russian Museum of the Year 2025

• Slantsy Historical and Local History Museum | Slantsy: Five Lives of One Land, Slantsy Leningrad Region

 

Museum Masterpiece (Special Jury Award)

• State Museum-Reserve Tsarskoye Selo | Catherine II: Personal Space, Pushkin Saint Petersburg

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2025 Sandford Awards UK

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• ​Kensington Palace, London

• The Cooper Gallery, Barnsley

• The British Schools Museum, Hitchin

• Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, Ushaw Moor, Durham

• Keats House, London

• Gainsborough Old Hall, Gainsborough

• Clifton Suspension Bridge Museum, Bristol

• The National Archives, London

• Flag Fen Archaeology Park, Peterborough

• Bridging the Tamar Visitor & Learning Centre, Devon / Cornwall border

• The Food Museum, Swindon

• St Albans Museum + Gallery, St Albans

• Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre at Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes

• La Hougue Bie Museum, Jersey, Channel Islands

• Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar, North Yorkshire

• Chiltern Open Air Museum, Buckinghamshire

• Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum, Sleaford, Lincolnshire

• Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln

• Holdenby House, Northamptonshire

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