On the occasion of the second part of the 2023 session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Mr. Kostis Efstathiou presented today to the Committee on Culture, Education and Media the institution of the Annual Museum Award of the Council of Europe, in which he participates as a representative of the CSCE.
Mr Efstathiou underlined the important social role and contribution of museums to intercultural dialogue and the dissemination of the values of democracy, human rights, art and culture to the wider society. The award of this year's prize to the Copenhagen Workers' Museum, said the Cypriot MP, sends a strong message of social justice and recognition of the struggles of workers in Denmark and elsewhere. Efstathiou pointed out that museums have ceased to function as a nostalgic representation of the past, but instead, through innovative approaches and tools, they raise and explore key questions related to today's complex and complex reality, at the heart of which is human existence and action.
Subsequently, Mr Efstathiou attended the event for the presentation of this year's Council of Europe Museum Award, in the presence of the President of the CSCE, Mr Tiny Kox and other officials of the Organisation.
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