Bavarian Museum Prize
The Bavarian Museum Prize has been awarded to a non-state museum in Bavaria every two years since 1991 . The aim is to honor and promote the cultural work of the Bavarian museums . The award assumes outstanding museum work. Since 2015, the Bavarian Museum Prize has been awarded in two categories, namely a prize endowed with € 20,000 to a museum with full-time or part-time scientific management and a prize endowed with € 10,000 to a museum run on a voluntary basis. A prerequisite for an application is an exemplary new installation or redesign with pioneering approaches in the area of collection presentation and didactic communication, museum educational projects with model character and exemplary projects of conservation and restoration.
Award winners
- 1991: Franconian Open Air Museum Bad Windsheim
- 1993: District Museum Dachau
- 1995: Murnau Castle Museum
- 1997: Bayreuth Historical Museum
- 1999: Museum of the City of Miltenberg
- 2001: Museum Altomünster
- 2003: Roth factory museum
- 2005: Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg
- 2007: Maximilian Museum Augsburg; Special prize to the Massing Open Air Museum
- 2009: Dingolfing Museum , Industrial History Collection
- 2011: Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial
- 2013: Kaufbeuren City Museum
- 2015: German Hat Museum Lindenberg and the Augustinian Canons Museum in Markt Indersdorf (prize for a museum run by volunteers)
- 2017: HopfenBierGut - Museum im Kornhaus Spalt and the Vilsbiburg Local History Museum (prize for a museum run by volunteers)
- 2019: Museum Oberschönenfeld and the Staffelsee Museum in Seehausen