VIBE NIELSEN

Social anthropologist with a background in Museum Studies, Modern Culture and European Ethnology, working on issues related to the decolonisation of museums, botanic gardens and public places.

 

I have worked and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in museums, universities and cultural organisations in:

• Denmark (Glyptoteket, Nationalmuseet, M/S Museet for Søfart and the University of Copenhagen)

• France (Musée du Quai Branly and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre)

• Italy (Museo delle Civiltà and Accademia di Danimarca)

• The Netherlands (Rijksmuseum and Wereldmuseum Leiden)

• South Africa (The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Iziko South African National Gallery, University of Cape Town and Johannesburg Art Gallery)

• The United Kingdom (The Pitt Rivers Museum, Kew Gardens, Oxford Botanic Garden, University College London and the University of Oxford).

• The United States (The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens). 

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I hold a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen (2019) and am currently affiliated as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, where I am the Principal Investigator of the three-year research project Passion or Politics? The art collecting practices of Carl Jacobsen in a socioeconomic and cultural political context 1878-1914. The research project, which is funded by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation, examines the international influences and cultural political agendas that motivated the establishment of the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

 

In continuation of my three years as Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, I am affiliated as Associate Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum and hold a Research Fellowship at Linacre College.