The Art Newspaper

Sanne Houby-Nielsen new director general of the National Museums of World Culture

By The Art Newspaper. From Comings and Goings
Published online: 01 September 2010

Sanne Houby-Nielsen

The Swedish government has appointed Sanne Houby-Nielsen as director general of the National Museums of World Culture, Gothenburg. She has led institutions under the National Museums of World Culture umbrella since 2000, including the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities and the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. She holds a doctorate in classical archaeology, and she previously worked as head of the Royal Cast Collection at the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen and was field manager for the Danish-Greek excavations in Chalcis.