The 46 nominated museums competed for this award.
The European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA ) is the longest running museum award in Europe, presented each year by the European Museum Forum under the auspices of the Council of Europe. EMYA was founded in 1977 with the aim of recognising excellence in the European museum scene and encouraging innovative processes in a museum world which still took the more traditional view to focus exclusively on collections rather than on their use for the benefit of society.
Apart from the European Museum of the Year Award, there are another three awards presented at this annual ceremony.
This year, the Council of Europe Museum Prize went to Memorial ACTe (MACTe), the Caribbean Centre of Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery, Guadeloupe, France.
The Kenneth Hudson Award went to the Museum of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The Silletto Prize was won by Leiria Museum, Leiria, Portugal.
Addressing the ceremony, Croatian Culture Minister Nina Obuljen Korzinek said that museums were not only places for preservation of national heritage but also important factors for the development of society,
The minister thanked the European Museum Forum for having chosen the Croatian capital as the venue for this year's ceremony.