Lise is head of the Centre for Museology and the administrative officer at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. She is an associate professor in art history and museology and conducts research on i.a. digital technology in museum mediation and gender and museums. She is currently head of the research project "Gender as cultural heritage in Danish museums: a pilot based on web scraping of online communication", funded by AUFF Nova. Lise is a member of the Agency for Culture and Palaces.

Ane is professor of Museology at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. She is a member of and the initiator of a number of interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research projects, most recently an international DFF-funded research network on cultural sustainability. In addition, she has been the editor of and contributed to several anthologies about museology. Ane teaches a number of courses in museology and art history and conducts research on art after 1950, museum history, communication didactics, exhibition and institutional analysis, museological theories and methods as well as digital museology. She has extensive experience in supervising master students and PhD fellows in art and museology in collaboration with museums.

Vinnie is a classical archaeologist and the director of Museum of Ancient Art and the Sapere Aude research director of the FKK project MINERVA. She does research on contemporary understandings of antiquity, Greek archaeology and museums and their communication.

Lisbet is an associate professor of art history at Aarhus University. She has published articles in a number of international journals about the early modern period in Europe, focusing on themes such as materiality, image theory, natural philosophy and collections. In 2019-2022, she was research director of the interdisciplinary project Digital Art History: Painting, Materiality and Method in collaboration with the National Gallery of Denmark, financed by Independent Research Fund Denmark and the New Carlsberg Foundation. Lisbet Tarp teaches art history and museology. She is a member of the steering committee for IT West's special interest group for musical and aesthetic subjects, which contributes to developing digital literacy in teaching across primary and lower secondary school, upper secondary school and higher education.

Edward’s research focuses on the Baroque period in the Mediterranean, with particular focus on Spain and Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries. He has dealt with a number of topics including violence, skin, perceptions of emotions, caricatures and ugliness. Before joining Aarhus University, he taught art history at Durham University in England and worked for six years as a museum curator in the United States, England and Spain.

Panagiotis is an associate professor at the department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. His research focuses on the history and theories of modern and contemporary architecture with particular focus on the work of Le Corbusier. He has researched subjects such as standardisation, architectural copies, and the architecture of leisure. Previously, he worked as an architect and taught at Oslo University and the National Technical University of Athens.

Sally Thorhauge holds an MA and a PhD in Museology from Aarhus University. Her main area of research focuses on formal and informal learning environments as well as in the inherent interdisciplinarity of museums and how this interfaces with the disciplines of formal learning institutions as e.g. in learning partnerships between cultural institutions and places of education. She teaches museology classes at Aarhus University. She is the author of the STEAM at museums (2023-2025) development project, funded by Central Denmark Region, and is also on the steering committee of this project. She has authored, initiated and headed various national and international projects, collaborations and networks. She was the initiator of the Intrface Association and was its director for many years.

Ane Kirstine is a postdoc at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. She conducts research on textiles as a medium in art and visual history, and her PhD-dissertation dealt with the role and effect of textiles on late medieval religiosity. Her current research focuses on woven material and the loom as an image-generating machine. She has also taught Theory of Science of Art History, Visual Theory, Image and Design Analysis and Visual Analysis and Method 1 at Art History.

Christiane is a postdoc at Aesthetics and Culture, the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. Her primary fields of research are cultural institutions (primarily museums), communication, participation and cultural citizenship. Currently, she is affiliated with the research project BØV, which is a collaboration between Aarhus University, The National Art Museum, National Museum of Denmark and the Royal Danish Theatre. BØV focuses on children's encounter with national cultural heritage. Christiane is also associated with the Centre for Cultural Evaluation at Aarhus University.

Gertrud is a postdoc at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology and Skovgaard Museum. On the basis of her PhD in Corporate Communication, MA in Visual Culture and MA in Media Studies, she examines local art museums as a platform for social communities. She conducts research on museums from the perspective of stakeholders, organisational identity and communication. She has previously worked with strategic planning for brands as well as teaching, guidance and as an external examiner at the university.

Jakob has a PhD in Art History from Aarhus University and is a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University and the museum KØN – Gender Museum Denmark. His research focuses on everyday visual culture, pictures of children and the relevance of semiotics and psychoanalysis for art history and image analysis. His first book Barnestreger – Køn og seksualitet i børns tegninger was published in 2020 by Passepartout and KØN (then Kvindemuseet), where he simultaneously curated the exhibition with the same title.

Kasper is a postdoc at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology and has a degree in both art history and architecture. He is currently conducting research on feelings in art, including genre painting, and this work is reflected among other things in the exhibition ‘When everyday life stole the picture’ at Nivaagaards Samling. Among other things, he is an associate member of CODART and an architect MAA. Kasper teaches art history courses with a focus on i.a. image theory and space analysis. He has extensive teaching experience from both Denmark and abroad.

Mia is a postdoc at the Department of Art History & Museology, Skagens Kunstmuseer and Johannes Larsen Museum. She conducts research into cultural heritage communication with a special focus on sound design and the use of sound in historical museums and sites. Her postdoc project focuses on sound as a resource in the interpretation and communication of historic artists' homes. Her research is practice-based and rooted in concrete communication development at the partner museums. Mia has a background in photography, visual culture and practical work with art production. She is on the steering committees for the Danish Network for House Museums and the Danish Centre for Museum Research.

Pernille, PhD, is a researcher at the Department of Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University, and affiliated with the Hirschsprung Collection. Pernille’s research spans art, science and technology, which she views from different perspectives. Currently, her research addresses the cross-section between plants, culture, colonialism and gender in 19th-century Danish art in the VELUX-funded collective project Hidden plant stories, headed by associate professor Anette Vandsø. Pernille's PhD-project and postdoc were about contemporary art that was created by using natural science technologies. Her subsequent research project Clockworks dealt with art and thematised temporality and the history of the mechanical clock.

Anastasia is a PhD student at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. She taught the course Cultural approaches to understanding the Middle East. Her research focuses on visual art and the political aspects of museum communication and representations of cultures within contemporary art.

Anne has an MA in history, is the director of the Museum of Supply and Sustainability, and is a PhD student at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. Her research focuses on how communication methods affect the attraction and relevance of different user groups at museums. Her research findings will be used in the development of communication at the new Vildmosemuseum. Her research interest stems from a preoccupation with identity formation and how museums influence this.

Christine is a PhD research fellow at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. In her project The Collector Rodin, Christine studies Rodin's fascination with antiquity and explores Rodin’s own private collection of ancient Greco-Roman objects and objects from Egypt, Japan, China, South America, the Middle East and India. The research project will increase our understanding of how Rodin used antiquity in his works.

Katrine is PhD student at art history, School of Communication and Culture and curator at Ribe Art Museum. Based on gender theory, her PhD project aims to challenge the canon of art history and create a new framework of understanding for Danish medieval works from the period 1885-1937. Katrine holds an MA in art history from the University of Copenhagen. She has previously worked for the art association Gl. Strand, at ARKEN and at the National Gallery of Denmark.

Julie is a PhD research fellow at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. Her PhD-project “Antiquity in the 21st century Century. – how?" focuses on how antiquity and the Glyptoteket's collection of antiquities can be actualised and communicated in a relevant manner. The PhD-project is funded by the New Carlsberg Foundation and is carried out in a collaboration between Aarhus University and the Glyptoteket.

Tilde is a PhD student at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology. Her PhD-project is about the artist Hans Smidth (1839-1917) and about methods for reactualisation in an art historiographical and museological context. A collaboration between Aarhus University and Museum Salling. Her background is in art history and museology from Aarhus University. She has worked at ARoS, Museum Jorn, Viborg Kunsthal and as an art curator at Museum Salling. 

Eva Vele is a PhD visiting scholar at the Department of Art History, Aesthetics & Culture and Museology under the supervision of Professor Ane Hejlskov Larsen. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). From 2022 to 2023, she led the Open Collections project, focused on the digitalization and accessibility of cultural heritage from Czech museums and galleries, and previously worked as a project manager at the Wikimedia Foundation on the GLAM initiative to connect cultural institutions and enhance their online visibility. Her dissertation, The Transformation of Czech Art Museum Practice in the Age of the Anthropocene, examines the current state of Czech art museums within the context of the climate crisis and explores how these institutions can become resilient and relevant, capable of enduring and addressing the challenges posed by the climate crisis, with a focus on comprehensive sustainability across ecological, social, and economic dimensions.