The European Museum Forum, a museum formation under the Council of Europe and organizer of the European Museum of the Year award, has decided to incorporate Joan Seguí, director of L'ETNO, the Diputació de València's museum that will receive the EMYA European Museum of the Year award in 2023, to the jury of the EMYA awards.
The appointment recognizes, in addition to the trajectory of the director, the impulse given from the area of Culture of the Provincial Council, headed by the deputy Paco Teruel, to this museum and the criteria of work of l'ETNO, which make him worthy of becoming a judge to assess future candidates for the EMYA award.
This appointment reinforces the work that ETNO is promoting as an institution of the area of Culture of the Diputació de València, since its operation as a social and territorial museum will be used as parameters with which to assess the museums that are presented to the award. The contemporary approach to the recent past, the recovery for the present of practices of traditional society, the bold and modern museography, the networking with the territory, or the treatment of issues related to health, culture and welfare, are issues that with this appointment are recognized and that can serve to assess the work of other museums.
For the Diputació de València, the incorporation of the director of l'ETNO to this jury means that the museum is located in one of the forums with the greatest museum repercussion in Europe, which will allow it not only to disseminate the working model of this museum, but also to place itself at the center of innovations in museum and heritage management of museums in our environment.
Joan Segui joins a jury composed of 10 curators and museum directors from different European countries. His job as a member of the EMYA jury will be to visit various European museums that have submitted a candidacy and make a report on each museum to be assessed by the full jury, in order to establish which nominations are eligible for the award and of these, which of them is awarded in one of the modalities of the EMYA awards.
The EMYA awards are the most prestigious in the museum sector in Europe and have been organized annually since 1977. They award 6 prizes (European Museum of the Year, Council of Europe Museum Award, Kenneth Hudson Award for institutional value and professional integrity, Silletto Award for participation and commitment to the community, Portimão Museum Award for welcome, inclusion and belonging, Meyvaert Award for environmental sustainability) and 6 special mentions.
