Martine Gosselink holds a MA in Art History from the University of Amsterdam. She started her career as cultural enterpriser. Martine runs a cultural organization together with 3 partners called De Nieuwe Collectie (The New Collection). Her daily occupation consists of making concepts of, and putting together exhibitions. Making concepts of films and texts for films, multimedia and publications is also part of her work.Occasionally, her projects are self-initiated (www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl), but usually Martine works for museums, embassies and ministries in the Netherlands as well as in other countries. A recent example is: the exhibition ‘New Amsterdam. Island at the Center of the World’ which will be held in New York in 2009, commissioned by the National Archives of the Netherlands.
Since February 2009 Martine is also Head of the History department of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.Martine is connected to the CIE as museum expert. She wrote an advice report on the establishment of a new Maritime museum in Galle, Sri Lanka, wherein planning, contents, routing and organizational structure was studied and advised. She takes part in other CIE projects such as the refurbishment of the National Museum in Afghanistan.
