Dr Marlen Mouliou
Marlen Mouliou is Assistant Professor of Museology at the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and a member of the Special Cross-faculty Committee of the MA in Museum Studies.
She is responsible for the Public Archeology activities organised in the context of NKUA’s Excavation at Marathon and Coordinator of CIVIS Alliance Open Labs in the NKUA. In 2023, she was awarded a Fellowship by Fulbright Foundation in Greece.
In the past, Marlen held several key positions in the International Council of Museums (CAMOC-ICOM), the European Museum Forum and UNIVERSEUM (European Academic Heritage Network). From 2016 till May 2022, she was a Member of the Panel of Judges for the European Museum of the Year Award, and also chaired the Panel for two years. For 16 years, she worked as an archaeologist-museologist at the Ministry of Culture (Directorate of Museums, Exhibitions and Educational Programmes).
Her research interests focus on: the social role of museums, museums as spiritual places, museum history and contemporary museums’ operations, public archeology, etc. In 2020, she created The Museum Inside Me, a participatory initiative aimed at promoting the public value of museums.
Together with Mark O’Neill and Jette Sandahl, she co-edited the book Revisiting Museums of Influence. Four decades of Innovation and Public Quality in European Museums, Routledge, 2021.
She has very extensive teaching experience on subjects such as Material Culture and Collection Studies, Museum Interpretation, Museum Exhibitions, the Social Role of Museums etc. She has also very extensive experience in creating museum exhibitions and interpreting different kinds of collections within this framework. Her research and publication record is fully aligned with her dedication in the study of museums, objects and collections.
Marlen studied Archaeology and History of Art at the NKUA and Museology (MA, PhD) at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK. Her doctoral research on the Writing of Classical Archaeology in Post-War museum exhibitions in Greece was supervised by leading professor in Material Culture Studies Professor Susan Pearce.