The Exhibition Centre of the Constanta Casino was named a finalist in the prestigious European Museum Academy Awards 2026 competition in Spain, representatives of the cultural institution announced this week.

According to a press release, the Constanta Casino Exhibition Centre reached the final of the European Museum Academy Awards 2026, an initiative dedicated to promoting research, innovation and best practices in museology. The awards ceremony took place on September 26 at MARQ (the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Alicante) in Spain.

“For Constanta, reaching the final of the DASA Award 2026 represents international recognition of the Casino museum project and of the way built heritage can serve as the starting point for a contemporary, accessible and public-oriented museum experience,” said Anamaria Misa, General Manager of the Constanta Casino.

The Constanta Casino museum project was selected as one of five finalists for the DASA Award 2026, a major European distinction recognising education, accessibility and new forms of engagement between museums and their audiences. The other finalists were the ZOOM Children’s Museum (Vienna, Austria), the Ocean Museum Germany (Stralsund, Germany), The Home of The Human Safety Net (Venice, Italy) and the Walery Rzewuski Museum of the History of Photography in Kraków (MuFo, Poland), which ultimately won the award.

“The selection of the Constanta Casino Museum as a finalist for the DASA Award 2026 places the museum project developed within this Art Nouveau monument in a European context dedicated to museum innovation and the relationship between heritage and the public,” the release added.