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LAM has been nominated for the EMYA2021 – European Museum of the Year Award
The LAM museum has been nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award 2021. The award is the oldest and most prestigious museum prize in Europe. New or existing museums with major innovations can compete for the title.
Director Sietske van Zanten: “The nomination is a wonderful recognition for our innovative museum concept in which not art but the visitor is central. Here we make non-museum enthusiasts in particular enthusiastic with and for art.”
January 2021
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b. 1962, UK) has been awarded the 2021 Whitechapel Art Icon award, supported by Swarovski Foundation
We are delighted to share this wonderful news with you. Click here to find out more information about the Yinka Shonibare Foundation and the work they are doing both in the UK and in Nigeria.
January 2021
New directors of the Museum and the Modern Art Centre
António Filipe Pimentel will run the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and Benjamin Weil will be responsible for the Modern Art Centre. Read more here.
December 2020