[Discussion] Museum of Health Care in Turkey wins 2004 Council of Europe Museum Prize

[Gonul Pultar]

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>Subject: Museum of Health Care in Turkey wins 2004 Council of Europe Museum 
>Prize
>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:26:30 +0100
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>Museum of Health Care in Turkey wins 2004 Council of Europe Museum Prize
>Strasbourg, 05.12.2003 - The Council of Europe's Museum Prize for 2004 has
>been awarded to the Museum of Health Care in Edirne, Turkey.
>The museum is part of a hospital and religious complex, built in the 1480s
>by Sultan Bayezid II, which was a place for treating people with mental
>disorders using holistic treatments such as the sound of water, music and
>aromatic compounds. Visitors today can sit and listen to the sounds of 
>music
>and water used to calm patients several centuries ago.
>The jury commended "this successful and exemplary approach to the
>psychologically sensitive theme of mental disorder" and expressed the hope
>that the museum might serve as a further bridge between the cultures of
>western and eastern Europe.
>The Museum Prize of the Council of Europe has been awarded annually since
>1977 to a museum judged to have made a significant contribution to the
>understanding of European cultural heritage. Museums in the 48 countries of
>the European Cultural Convention are eligible to enter for the prize.
>The winning museum will be presented with a bronze statuette by Joan Miró,
>La femme aux beaux seins, which the museum will keep for a year, as well as
>a diploma and a cheque for 5 000 euros. The presentation ceremony will take
>place in Strasbourg on 27 April 2004 during the Parliamentary Assembly's
>Spring session.
>The prize is awarded by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly's
>Committee on Culture, Science and Education on the basis of a shortlist
>presented by a jury of the European Museum Forum, and forms part of the
>European Museum of the Year Awards.
>Recent winners include the Latenium in Hauterive-Neuchâtel, Switzerland
>(2003), the Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck, Germany (2002) and the Helsinki
>Theatre Museum in Finland (2001).
>The website of the Edirne Museum of Health Care:
>http://www.trakya.edu.tr/kulliye
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>Contact:
>Christopher Grayson, Head of the Secretariat of the Assembly's Committee on
>Culture, Science and Education, tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 21 14, e-mail:
>christopher.grayson@coe.int
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