Marjolein Beumer
Marjolein Beumer, who is trained as a cultural anthropologist, is an all-round museum professional in the field of collection registration and digitisation. Her practical and management experience in numerous museums in the Netherlands and abroad have let her develope clear views and tools on the digitisation of museum collections. As a consultant, she assisted museums in implementing collection registration systems.
From 2000 to 2008 she joined the Collections department of Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, first as a registrar and since 2002 as an IT consultant. She developed a quality handbook with procedures for collection digitisation, managed digitisation projects within the Tropenmuseum and cooperated in the SenterNovem-‘Digitaliseren met Beleid’ project “Digital association” for developing methods for the digitisation and accessibility of intangible heritage and museum knowledge.
Since 2008, she is working for Erfgoed Delft e.o. (Museums Nusantara, Prinsenhof and Lambert van Meerten, Winkeltje Kouwenhoven, Archaeology and Archives Delft and vicinity, Heritage Library) as an ICT manager and consultant.