European Museum of The Year Winners
- 1977: Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Ironbridge, United Kingdom
- 1978: Schloss Rheydt Municipal Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
- 1979: Museum of the Camargue, Arles, France
- 1980: Catharine Convent State Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
- 1981: Folk Art Museum, Nafplion, Greece
- 1982: Museum of Art and History, Saint-Denis, France
- 1983: Regional Museum (Museum Sarganserland), Sargans, Switzerland
- 1984: Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen Netherlands
- 1987: Beamish: North of England Open Air Museum, Stanley, United Kingdom
- 1988: Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
- 1989: Sundsvall Museum, Sundsvall, Sweden
- 1990: Ecomuseum of the Fourmies-Trélon Region, Fourmies, France
- 1991: Leventis Museum of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 1992: State Museum of Technology and Work, Mannheim, Germany
- 1993: Alta Museum, Alta, Norway
- 1994: National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1995: The Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1996: Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
- 1997: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey
- 1998: National Conservation Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- 1999: Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
- 2000: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
- 2001: National Railway Museum, York, United Kingdom
- 2002: Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
- 2003: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom (specifically for the new British Galleries)
- 2004: Archaeological Museum of Alicante, Spain
- 2005: Netherlands Open Air Museum, Arnhem, Netherlands
- 2006: CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, Spain
- 2007: German Emigration Center, Bremerhaven, Germany
- 2008: Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia
- 2009: Salzburg Museum in Salzburg, Austria
- 2010: Ozeaneum Stralsund, Stralsund, Germany
- 2011: Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren, Belgium
- 2012: Madinat al-Zahra Museum in Cordoba, Spain
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