In the IMAGINES programme Wu Wei & Xu Ziyan from The Palace Museum talk to TBIH's Brad Dunn about the The Palace Museum Archaeological Heritage Project. It won the AVICOM/f@imp Gold Award 2020 for Digital Interactive.

In the core programme, Director of the Stapferhaus Sibylle Lichtensteiger talks to TBIH's Bruno Brulon about this museum from Lenzburg, Switzerland, which won the European Museum of the Year Award in 2020. 

Senior Kaurna Elder Lynette Crocker & Curator of History & Exhibitions at Bay Discovery Centre Julia Garnaut talk to TBIH's Beth Redmond-Jones about the Tiati Wangkanthi Kumangka exhibition. It was declared as the National Winner at the 2020 Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNA). 

In the fourth video, the project coordinator of Hvar’s Arsenal Ita Pavičić talks to TBIH's Vinod Kumar MM about this restoration project that won the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2020 in the category Conservation.

For information on all featured laureates in 2021 click here.

All released videos of the 20th edition are available here. 

The Forbidden City Archaeology XR Project focuses on the discovery of archaeological sites in the Forbidden City. This XR project applies multi-view 3D reconstruction technology, explores the significance of the digital data, and provides services for heritage protection, research, exhibition and many other aspects based on XR. This project not only provides precious three-dimensional data for experts and scholars to carry out specific research but also combines virtual reality and augmented reality technology to provide audiences and enthusiasts from all over the world.

At the Stapferhaus the big questions of the present stand at the forefront: what impacts our lives, what triggers the country’s interest and what moves the world. In sensory worlds the exhibitions invite the public to engage critically with the present in an entertaining manner. They encourage visitors to take responsibility and to shape our common future. The exhibitions create experience-oriented and low-threshold approaches for as broad and diverse an audience as possible. Visitors are invited to bring in their opinion, to question the self-evident and to gain new perspectives.

Co-curated by the Kaurna Nation and City of Holdfast Bay, Tiati explores the true history of South Australia’s colonial past. Tiati is a meaningful, thought provoking and at times confrontational exhibition. Though it seeks to tell the story of South Australia's colonisation, it also seeks to question Australia’s modern attitudes and ideas toward Aboriginal people. For the first time in South Australia’s history, an attempt is made to decolonise the museum, recognising the presence and interaction of multiple voices and challenging the audience to reconsider what they ‘think they know’.

The aim of the project was to restore the renaissance Arsenal building, originally used as a boatyard and warehouse, with full respect for all its monumental features. The town of Hvar now has a structurally repaired building with original building elements restored and presented, and the theatre (est. 1612) renovated and functional in its historical authenticity. With a ceremonial reception room and an art gallery on the first floor and large space of the ground floor, Arsenal has gained a new multi-purpose function, adapted to a modern needs and standards used for cultural and social events.