Ulrike Al-Khamis
Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis is the Director and CEO of the Aga Khan Museum. She us a well-known figure in the field with over 20 years of experience as a curator and senior advisor for museum and cultural projects. She holds a PhD in Islamic Art from the University of Edinburgh and served as a Co-Director at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization as well as Senior Strategic Advisor to the Sharjah Museums Department in the U.A.E. from 2007 to 2017. She began her career in Scotland, where she worked as Principal Curator for South Asia and the Middle East at the National Museums of Scotland from 1999 to 2007 and Curator for Muslim Art and Culture at Glasgow Museums from 1994 to 1999.
Dr. Al-Khamis is the first to hold the position of Director of Collections and Public Programs at the Aga Khan Museum, a role that oversees all the Museum’s activities related to collection management, academic research, exhibitions, public programming, and performing arts initiatives. She leads a team subject-matter specialists and program managers to establish a strategically cohesive and sustainable set of audience-focused programs and initiatives designed to further the Museum’s mandate and role locally, nationally, and internationally within the framework of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) more generally.
EPISODE NOTES & LINKS
Aga Khan Academies
https://www.agakhanacademies.org/general/aga-khan-academies-students-explore-aga-khan-museum-through-virtual-tour
Aga Khan Development Network
https://the.akdn/en/home
Aga Khan Museum
https://agakhanmuseum.org/index.html
Aga Khan Trust for Culture
https://the.akdn/en/how-we-work/our-agencies/aga-khan-trust-culture
Image?—The Power of the Visual
https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/exhibitions/image
The Golden Cage by Hakan Topal
https://www.agakhanmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-golden-cage