Egyptian Museum in Berlin with new management
Press release from 06/26/2009
At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Friederike Seyfried as the future Director of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Professor Dr Dietrich Wildung in July 2009, who will retire at the end of June 2009.
The 49-year-old is currently curator at the Egyptian Museum at Leipzig University. The Egyptologist completed her doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, where she subsequently worked as an assistant at the Egyptological Institute. Her experience ranges from field research, the management, organisation and scientific evaluation of excavations in Egypt to exhibition activities with international loans. Her publications are highly regarded by researchers. In her museum work, she has developed concepts of mediation that have met with a broad public response. She is experienced in acquiring third-party funding.
Friederike Seyfried sees the systematic scientific processing of the Berlin collection, intensive cooperation with Egyptian partners in the training of conservators and increased cooperation with university and non-university experts as key aspects of her future work. The Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be reorganised in October this year with the opening of the Neues Museum on Museum Island. Its most prominent exhibit is the bust of Nefertiti.