Debora Meijers

Debora Meijers (born 1948)[1] is an art historian and professor of museum studies at the University of Amsterdam, an educational elective program that she developed herself.

Meijers was born in Amsterdam.[1] In 1990 she obtained her doctorate under Rob Scheller.[1] She teaches and writes about the history of art collecting and curation as a science and as a facet of cultural heritage.[2]

Meijers was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.[3]

Works
  • Klasseren als principe : hoe de k.k. Bildergalerie te Wenen getransformeerd werd in een 'zichtbare geschiedenis van de kunst' (1772-1781), 1990
  • Kunst als Natur. Die Habsburger Gemäldegalerie um 1780, Milan, 1995
  • Verzamelen: van rariteitenkabinet tot kunstmuseum, with Ellinoor Bergvelt and Mieke Rijnders, Heerlen, 1993 (second edition 2005)
  • The Paper Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, c. 1725-60, with Renée Kistemaker and Natalja Kopaneva, Amsterdam, 2005

References
  1. "D.J. Meijers, 1948 -" (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020.
  2. D.J. Meijers on the University of Amsterdam website
  3. "Debora Meijers". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017.


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