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Peter van Mensch (born June 7, 1947, in Gouda, Netherlands) is a Dutch scholar in the field of museology, and previously a professor of Cultural Heritage at Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Peter van Mensch earned an MSc degree in Zoology and Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. He worked in the field of archaeology at the Government Agency for Field Archaeology and later at the University of Amsterdam. He devoted his professional career to Museology and worked between 1967 and 1982 for several museums of history, applied arts and natural history in the Netherlands. Since 1977 till 1982, he was director of educational programmes and exhibitions for the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden.
In 1982 he became a senior lecturer in theoretical museology and museum ethics at the Reinwardt Academy. There, he served as the director of the academy's International Master Degree Programme in Museology (1998–2001 and 2005–2010). He earned his PhD degree at the University of Zagreb on the basis of a thesis Towards a Methodology of Museology (1993). [1] He was appointed as the first professor of cultural heritage at the Amsterdam School of the Arts (2006) and as such, he was responsible for the academy's research program. [2]
Van Mensch was active in the ICOM International Committee for Education and Cultural Action (CECA), the ICOM International Committee for Training (ICTOP) and the International Committee for Museology (ICOM), the last of which he was president (1989–1993). As chair of the preliminary board, he played a role in the creation of a new ICOM international committee, called the International Committee for Collecting (COMCOL) (2010). [3]
Peter van Mensch has been a guest lecturer at many international museology programs, such as the museology program of the University of São Paulo (Brazil), the International Summer School of Museology at Brno (Czech Republic), the Baltic Museology School (Latvia) and the International School of Museology at Celje (Slovenia).
Van Mensch is an acknowledged scientist engaged in theoretical museology. He is interested in new trends in museology and also focuses on the development of museology as an integral and integrated approach to cultural heritage. In his thesis Towards a Methodology of Museology, he analyzes the current achievements of museology and formulates principles that are recognised by all museology codes.
Van Mensch played a significant role in developing the curriculum of the bachelor and master programs of the Reinwardt Academy for Cultural Heritage (Amsterdam) and was instrumental in building this academy's reputation as a professional training institution.
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