Debora Meijers (born 1948) is an art historian and professor of museum studies at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

, an educational elective program that she developed herself. Meijers was born in Amsterdam. In 1990 she obtained her

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under

Rob Scheller Robert Wouter Hans Pieter "Rob" Scheller (born 11 June 1927) is a Dutch art historian. He was professor of art history, specializing in the Middle Ages, at the University of Amsterdam between 1969 and 1992. Scheller was born in Amsterdam to a Swi ...

. She teaches and writes about the history of art collecting and curation as a science and as a facet of cultural heritage. Meijers was elected a member of the

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in 2006.

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

1948 births Living people Dutch art historians Dutch women historians Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Women art historians Dutch women educators {{Netherlands-bio-stub