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 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. In May 2024, I started a new three year research project, funded by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation, in which I examine the art collecting practices of Carl Jacobsen in a socio-economic and cultural-political context.

 

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.