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Martin Maischberger, born in Munich in 1964, studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Italian Philology in Berlin and Perugia and completed his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 1995 with a dissertation on marble imports to Rome in the Imperial period. After working at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), in a restoration office and at the Free University of Berlin, he joined the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the National Museums in Berlin in 2005, initially as a research assistant and since 2007 as deputy director. He is very familiar with all the core tasks of a museum, from the scientific processing of collections to the acquisition of third-party funding, exhibition conception and realisation as well as restoration and relocation supervision. The exhibitions he has organised include "Die griechische Klassik. Ideal and Reality" (2002), "The Last Hours of Herculaneum" (2005), "Pergamon. Masterpieces of the Ancient Metropolis and 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi" (2018) and, most recently, "The Bronzes of San Casciano. A sensation from the mud". Maischberger's research has included the excavations carried out by the museums between 1875 and 1914, focussing on the provenance of objects from the Samos, Miletus and Didyma excavations. He is a member of numerous advisory boards and associations and has an excellent network, both in the scientific community of archaeology and in the museum sector.

Martin Maischberger would like to link the presentation of the collection in the Altes Museum, parts of the Neues Museum and the Pergamonmuseum even more closely than before to contemporary discourses and broaden its thematic scope: "The encyclopaedic breadth of the Collection of Classical Antiquities also offers numerous points of reference for our contemporary themes, such as in the recent exhibition Goddesses and Wives - Women in Ancient Myth. I would also like to intensify the dialogue between ancient and contemporary art." In addition to existing contacts in the countries of origin Italy, Greece and Turkey, he plans to expand international cooperation with other major museums. He also sees provenance research on the collection as another key topic.

Marion Ackermann, President of the SPK, explains: "Martin Maischberger has extensive experience in museum work and is well-positioned academically. I am delighted that in him we will have a director who, on the one hand, knows and looks after the collection extremely well and, on the other, will introduce new aspects to the presentation in order to appeal to new visitor groups."

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