Nicola Crüsemann

Nicola Crüsemann (* 1964 ) is a German Near Eastern archaeologist and museum educator .

Nicola Crüsemann, daughter of the Old Testament writer Frank Crüsemann , studied Near Eastern Archeology at the University of Frankfurt am Main and at the Free University of Berlin . Even when he was a student, Crüsemann was interested in museum work. She completed an internship at the Département des Antiquités Orientales des Louvre in Paris and then a year-long internship at the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin . In 1997 she was involved in the conception of the exhibition at the Vorderasiatisches Museum “ With a pickaxe and a pencil. Archeology of the Ancient Orient ”. Her dissertation “ Prehistory and years of origin (1899–1918) of the Middle East Department of the Berlin Museums in front of technical and cultural-political backgrounds ” dealt with the history of the Middle East Museum, at which she was a volunteer from the end of 1998 . Crüsemann's doctoral supervisor was Hans J. Nissen , and Johannes Renger's second reviewer for the dissertation .

From 1999 onwards, Crüsemann was one of the three directors of the Young Museum Speyer , the museum education department of the Palatinate History Museum . Then she was one of the curators of the exhibition " Saladin and the Crusaders " at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums . In 2007 she was the project manager of the special exhibition Alexander the Great and the Opening of the World (2009/2010). She later headed the exhibition project URUK - 5000 Years of Megacity , which was shown in 2013/14 in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and in the LWL Museum for Archeology in Herne.

literature

• Beate Salje : Personalia. In: EOS VII. May 1999, p. XXVI.

Fonts

• A book with 288 seals. The early seals of the Erlenmeyer collection. Attempt a chronological and regional classification. Master's thesis FU Berlin 1993
• Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, history and stories on the centenary , State Museums in Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88609-442-1 .
• From Mesopotamia to the Kupfergraben. Prehistory and years of origin (1899–1918) of the Near Eastern Department of the Berlin museums against technical and cultural-political backgrounds. Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7861-2403-5 , (Yearbook of the Berlin Museums, NF, Vol. 42. 2000, booklet).