Germany New Head Tender

The approximately 1200 non-state museums in Baden-Wrttemberg are getting a new contact person Shahab Sangestan from the state office for non-state museums in Bavaria is expected to succeed Dr. Axel Burkarth will take over as head of the Baden-Wrttemberg State Office for Museum Care as State Secretary Petra Olschowski announced on Thursday October 22 in Stuttgart. I am delighted that in Shahab Sangestan we have been able to gain a personality with great professional advisory skills said Petra Olschowski. He brings a high level of practical experience and an interest in innovative museum developments in important subject areas such as questions of openness and participation. The selection committee was won over by his ideas about the future work and positioning of the regional office. The State Secretary also paid tribute to Dr. Axel Burkarth who has headed the State Office for Museum Care since 1995 and will retire at the end of the year. Olschowski Dr. Burkarth played a key role in shaping the Baden-Wrttemberg museum landscape and advanced it in important areas. I thank him warmly for this. The State Office for Museum Care is of central importance as a technical contact for the more than 1200 non-state museums in Baden-Wrttemberg and their sponsors. With her wide range of tasks she accompanies them among other things in questions of museum and exhibition design financing and organization mediation and collection maintenance.Organizationally the landing site is assigned to the Wrttemberg State Museum and directly subordinated to the Ministry of Science Research and Art. She is the technical contact for state and non-state administrations for all museum-related issues.The selection of the new head was made at the suggestion of a four-person committee which in addition to the director of the two state museums Prof. Astrid Pellengahr and Prof. Eckart Khne the managing director of the Rhineland-Palatinate Museum Association Bettina Scheeder and department head Jutta Ulmer-Straub belonged as a representative of the Ministry of Art.To personShahab Sangestan 46 has been the area officer at the state office for non-state museums in Bavaria since 2015. There he is among other things coordinator of the Bavarian volunteer training. After studying art history classical archeology and philosophy at the University of Tbingen he was previously the curator of the Augsburg art collections and museums.