The winner and finalists of the 2024 Religious Heritage Innovator of the Year competition have been announced!
The winning project of the 2024 edition is the Recording Scotland’s Closing Churches: A Race Against Time project developed by the Scotland’s Churches Trust (United Kingdom).
The finalist projects selected by the jury are: Buurtbakens Haarlem, by the Municipality of Haarlem in cooperation with seven congregations (The Netherlands); Una catedral en el páramo: Villamorón – Burgos, España, by Asociación Amigos de Villamorón (Spain); 3D Sacral Art of Rivne region by the Rivne Museum of Local Lore (Ukraine); and Focus Craftership: Ora et Labora, by PARCUM (Belgium).
The competition has been judged by Anne Grady (Head of Development with the National Museum of Ireland to the CULT Committee of theEuropean Parliament), Gilles Guey (President of the Association of Directors of Culture of French Large Cities and Urban Areas), Justin Kroesen (Professor of Cultural History at the University of Bergen) and Greg Pickup (Chief Executive of The Churches Conservation Trust). More information about Jury members here.
The Award ceremony will take place at the FRH Biennial Conference 2026, which will take place in Belgium.
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