Csilla Ariese

Background

About Csilla Ariese

I am a museologist and storyteller at heart, who is passionate about shipwrecks, museums, the past, and games. I currently work as Senior Lecturer for the Reinwardt Academy's MA Applied Museum and Heritage Studies. Previously, I was Assistant Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies at Leiden University on the ERC project BRASILIAE (2021-2022). As postdoctoral researcher within the Horizon2020 project ECHOES at the University of Amsterdam (2018-2021), I researched the Amsterdam Museum and how the museum is engaging with and negotiating the complex colonial pasts of its collections and the city and its citizens. I completed my PhD in 2018 as part of the ERC-Synergy project NEXUS1492 at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University with a dissertation entitled ‘The Social Museum in the Caribbean’ which explored 195 Caribbean museums and their participatory practices. I hold an MSc in International Museum Studies from Gothenburg University (2012) and at the same university completed a BA in archaeology with a specialization in maritime archaeology (2010). I am also co-founder and president of the VALUE Foundation which aims to design, facilitate, and conduct worldwide research, development, and outreach on the crossroads of gaming and academia.