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Dr. Miriam Kühn


Functions

  • Research Associate (Museum für Islamische Kunst)
  • Curator (Museum für Islamische Kunst)

Institution

Museum für Islamische Kunst

Contact

m.kuehn[at]smb.spk-berlin.de

Focus | Responsibilities | Projects

  • Curator in charge of textiles, glass, wood, coins and seals. She furthermore oversees the projects on provenance research in the collection and the photographic archive as well as the archive
    Website of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  • History of art, architecture and culture of the Mamluk period, historiography of Islamic art and archaeology, as well as the history of collecting and exhibiting
  • Co-PI: Lost Cities Rediscovered (LoCi): Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia
    Lost Cities Rediscovered

Vita

Since 03/2017 Curator, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
09/2012–03/2017 Project manager/content curator Yousef Jameel Digitization project, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
11/2011–09/2012 Research associate, Chair for Islamic art history and archaeology, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
10/2010–04/2011 Fellow, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
07/2008–10/2010 Curatorial Trainee, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
01/2006–07/2008 Graduate assistant, German Archaeological Institute, Orient-Department, Berlin
2002–2014 Author and copy editor, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL): Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker
2017 Conferral of a doctoral degree in art history, Department of Art History, Faculty of History and Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2005 Magistra Artium (Master) in Oriental art history (focus: History of Islamic art), art history and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Membership

  • 2017–2023: Treasurer of Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.. Zur Erforschung der Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie
  • Member of netzwerk mode textil e.V.
  • Member of Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V.
  • Member of Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker e.V.
  • Member of Historians of Islamic Art Association
  • Member of ICOM
  • Member of Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.. Zur Erforschung der Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie
  • Member of DAVO. Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient für gegenwartsbezogene Forschung und Dokumentation

Publications

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