The jury's motivation highlights the museum's work to arouse curiosity and make visitors feel involved.
“The audience can contribute to the collections, develop their own creation and meet other people at the museum and throughout the region.
The result is an engaging, independent and innovative museum that is located among the citizens and that broadens the horizon for a new generation of cultural history museums, ”they write.
Länsmuseet Sörmlands museum tells about the region's cultural history and moved into a newly built house in the port of Nyköping in 2018.
The Museum of the Year award is a walking prize awarded since 2009.