Introduction
Ane Hejlskov Larsen is a senior researcher and director of the research programme in Museology at Aarhus University in Denmark. She has extensive experience with practical museum work, especially museum communication and extensive research experience within museology. She has held several positions of trust, e.g. as chair of the visual arts committees in the Danish Arts Foundation for three years and chair of the Aarhus Municipality's Arts Council for four years, where she has led major politically initiated renewal initiatives and evaluations of various cultural institutions. She has participated in the preparation of the report on the dissemination of museums for the Ministry of Culture in 2006. She has also been co-responsible for a qualitative national study of young people's museum use, commissioned by the Cultural Heritage Agency in 2022. She has been the prime mover behind the development of museology in university education and as a field of research in Denmark since 1998.
Expert
Ane Hejlskov Larsen is a senior researcher and director of the research programme in Museology at Aarhus University in Denmark. She has extensive experience with practical museum work, especially museum communication and extensive research experience within museology. She has held several positions of trust, e.g. as chair of the visual arts committees in the Danish Arts Foundation for three years and chair of the Aarhus Municipality's Arts Council for four years, where she has led major politically initiated renewal initiatives and evaluations of various cultural institutions. She has participated in the preparation of the report on the dissemination of museums for the Ministry of Culture in 2006. She has also been co-responsible for a qualitative national study of young people's museum use, commissioned by the Cultural Heritage Agency in 2022. She has been the prime mover behind the development of museology in university education and as a field of research in Denmark since 1998.
Fields of expertise: Education, Gender equality, Social policy, Youth