UMAC Award | The finalists

2024 UMAC Award winner will be announced in Dresden in September 2024.

The UMAC Award of Excellence honours excellence and innovation in university museums and collections and, most importantly, celebrates the impact of university museums and collections on their host universities (here understood as higher education institutions), their communities and contemporary society.

Through the annual Award, UMAC commends outstanding recent contributions to all areas of museum and collections theory and practice, particularly those with an interdisciplinary approach and the potential for worldwide application.

The finalists for the 2024 UMAC Award are (in alphabetical order of the institution):
Giovanni Poleni Museum  
Project Title: “Science from the Islamic world to today’s Europe. Cross-Fertilization between past and future”
The Hunterian, University of Glasgow 
Project Title: “Curating Discomfort
Politecnico di Milano 
Project Title: “MADE IN POLIMI_Tales from Politecnico di Milano”
The final announcement of the winner will be made on 26 September, during UMAC’s Annual General Meeting to be held at UMAC-UNIVERSEUM Dresden.