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Mahmood Yenkimaleki
Faculty of Humanities
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The Critical Visitor
The Heritage Sector at a Crossroads: The way of Intersectionality. This project investigates how heritage institutions can achieve inclusion and accessibility within their organization, collection, and exhibition spaces that meets the breadth of demands placed by today’s “critical visitors.” Fifteen…
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Book and Digital Media Studies (MA)
The master’s programme in Book and Digital Media Studies introduces you to the history of the written and printed word, and to theories and practices of publishing as well as digital textual media.
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MA Specialisation Heritage and Postcolonial Studies
Objects and framings of heritage, archives, and academic knowledge production generate worldwide, fierce societal debates on the legacies of colonial violence, past injustice and present-day institutional racism. Whether bronzes from Benin, daggers from Bali, fossils from Java, photo-albums from…
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Art History (MA)
The master’s programme in Arts and Culture at Leiden University is uniquely positioned at the intersection of Art History and Museum Studies. Informed by leading interdisciplinary research, this degree provides you with a strong academic foundation for a variety of careers in museums, galleries and…
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Studying and living in The Hague
The Hague is a real student city and has everything you’ll need to turn your time as a student into the time of your life.
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Questions in museums as a trigger to learn
The type of question that museums ask about objects in their collection influences conversations between parents and children. Researchers from Leiden University and Naturalis Biodiversity Center studied how questions influence conversations. Publication in Visitor Studies on 2 July.
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Founding an Inclusive Space: Legacies of Alternative Archiving Practices in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom
The project ‘Founding an Inclusive Space’ investigates the histories of various LGBT+ archives in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.
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Heritage encased in public and private care
Bringing Dominican indigenous collections back to the community
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Why Leiden University?
The Faculty of Archaeology ranks as the best on continental Europe and is in the top ten of the world. Our master’s degree in archaeology offers the most diverse programme of its type in the Netherlands.
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Lena Riecke
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Guita Winkel
Faculty of Humanities
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Ugur Derin
Faculty of Humanities
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Ajay Gandhi
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Omer Kocyigit
Faculty of Humanities
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Elly Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
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Onur Ada
Faculty of Humanities
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Deniz Tat
Faculty of Humanities
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David Henley
Faculty of Humanities
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Isabelle Duijvesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcel Cobussen
Faculty of Humanities
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James McAllister
Faculty of Humanities
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Heritage
The head of MCS is also Director of the Leiden-based LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development, President of LeidenGlobal, and staff member of the Heritage and Museums department of the Faculty of Archaeology. Joint activities are being developed at the interface between heritage and museum stu…
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About the Department
The Department of Archaeological Heritage and Society focuses on the relationships between past and present, the role of heritage in society, and how heritage conceived broadly can contribute to improving quality of life.
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Dutch Centre for Travel Writing Studies
The Dutch Center for Travel Writing Studies s a scientific center that develops and coordinates initiatives to promote research into travel writing. It actively seeks contact with external (scientific and social) partners to collaborate on issues surrounding cultural / national identity, cultural contact…
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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Staff
The MCS group consists of five staff members, all of whom have a strong link to the Museums and Collections programme of the Faculty of Humanities and the Heritage and Museum programme of the Faculty of Archaeology.
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Ecologist Emilia Hannula receives Gold Medal in Teylers Museum
Soil ecologists Emilia Hannula (Leiden) and Elly Morriën (UvA) received the Golden Medal of Teylers Tweede Genootschap on 5 November. They received the prize for their submission to a competition on sustainable soil management.
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"Letters from Nature" installation featured in Museum De Lakenhal
The art installation by Peter van der Putten and Jeroen van der Most was selected from nearly 500 submissions for an exhibition on climate change.
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Want to know more about the MA/MSc Archaeology and experience what it’s like to study in Leiden? There are a number of activities that can help you choose your study.
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Queer Salon, bringing together insiders and outsiders
Doctoral research on the history of the critical visitor and their efforts at founding alternative archives including LGBT+-focused, feminist, disability and digitizing projects, resulting in a traveling exhibition on findings (with audio-guides), popular and scholarly article, and a dissertation.
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Erik-jan Zurcher
Faculty of Humanities
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Elpine de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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Unbundled. European Collecting of Andean Mummies 1850-1930
This dissertation approaches collections of Andean mummies in European national and university museums as the focus to understand the relationship between objects, documents, and the practice of collecting in the period from 1850 to 1930. Over 200 mummies, kept by 18 different museums in Western European…
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
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Elmer Veldkamp
Faculty of Humanities
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The urge to collect
Where does the urge to collect come from? What are the explicit or underlying reasons for gathering large amount of objects?
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2011 Laura van Broekhoven participates in the Museum Leadership Institute (MLI)
The chief curator of the National Museum of Ethnology, Laura van Broekhoven, is participating in the Museum Leadership Institute at the Claremont Graduate University.
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Young alumni take a look behind the scenes at the National Museum
The Young Alumni Network (YAN) organised a working visit to the National Museum in Amsterdam on Thursday 5 July. Alumni were able to take a look behind the scenes at the Museum and the excursion ended with an exclusive tour.
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Jonathan Stökl
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Institute for Area Studies
To truly understand complex regions such as the Middle East and Asia, you have to know their culture, history and local societies inside out. Driven by curiosity for other cultures, the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) provides an understanding and analysis of current and historical…
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Career prospects
Open up a world of opportunities with your master's degree in Archaeology from Leiden University!
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Salary of Museum de Fundatie’s former director not specified in annual report
Ralph Keuning, the former director of Museum de Fundatie, a museum for the visual arts in Zwolle, stepped down in 2022 following complaints about authoritarian leadership. On top of that, an independent investigation has shown that he received almost €200,000 from the struggling museum after his departure.…