Marlen Mouliou

Marlen Mouliou is Assistant Professor of Museology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of History and Archaeology) and a member of the Special Interdepartmental Committee of the Postgraduate Programme in Museums Studies, NKUA.
She is also responsible for the Public Archaeology Activities organized in the context of the university excavation project in Marathon. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Panel of Judges for the European Museum of the Year Award and Vice-Chair of the European Academic Heritage Network (UNIVERSEUM). From 2010 to 2016, she has served as Secretary and Chair of the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities (ICOM-CAMOC). She has worked as an archaeologist-museologist at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (Directorate of Museums, Exhibitions and Educational Programmes) (1997-2013).

Her research focuses on museums and their social value, museum history, material culture, museum archaeology, city museum policies and urban narratives, participatory museum interpretation, historic house museums, university museums, museum professionalism and training, museum accreditation, archaeological ethnographies and local communities. She studied Archaeology and History of Art at NKUA and Museology (MA, PhD) at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, U.K. She is founding member of the Scientific Committee of the scientific journal Tetradia Mouseiologias [Museological Notes] and of the journal CAMOC news.