We hope you are enjoying the abundance of excellence in the best practices as presented by the 42 chosen laureates again from the entire world. By the end of September both the core programme and IMAGINES juries will convene online, to analyse the digital edition and decide for the „Project of Influence“ 2020 for each of the two segments.

We shall also have the conference publication – this year as online PDF, but also made available for print to all interested parties. The same goes for the usual conference exhibition, featuring posters of all the participating laureates, also freely available as a ready-for-print product.

Below are six new video interviews, again diverse and encompassing a wide spectrum of projects dealing with public memory in its different forms. From initiative to safeguard war stricken Syria’s cultural heritage, revitalization of remote Caucasus settlement in Georgia, to a museum dedicated to automobile culture in Beijing, and a Danish museum curated by the sea. In IMAGINES section we feature the Anne Frank House’ Website by IN10, and Radiophonic spaces project by the Bauhaus University Weimar.

Moritz Kinzel & Abdulhamid Dihna talk to our Inkyung Chang about the Stewards of Cultural Heritage project by the Archaeological Heritage Network. It won the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Grand Prix 2019 in category Education, Training and Awareness-Raising. 

Our Sara Devine interviews Gerrit Netten from Anne Frank House & Jacco Ouwerkerk from DOOR/IN10 about the Anne Frank House Website that received the 2019 People's Voice / Webby Award in Website for Cultural Institutions category. 

In an interview with Ingeborg Svennevig & Helle Henningsen we learn about the site-specific Strandingsmuseum St. George, which won the European Museum Forum's Silletto Prize in 2019. Interview by Inkyung Chang.

Our Viv Golding talks to Liu Jingquan from the Beijing Auto Museum. It was awarded as one of the Most Innovative Museums in China in 2019, an accolade bestowed by the Chinese Museums Association annually.

In a talk with Sara Devine, Nathalie Singer from the Bauhaus University Weimar presents Radiophonic Spaces, a project that received the Heritage in Motion Award 2019 in category Games & Interactive Experiences.

Our Corey Timpson interviews Tamara Meliva about the Mutso project, winner of the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Public Choice Award 2019 in category Conservation. Video opens with a greeting message by the Director General of the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia Nikoloz Antidze.