Susanna Pettersson

Director General at Nationalmuseum, Sweden at Aalto University School of Business

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  • Aalto University School of Business

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Aalto University School of Business

DDr. Susanna Pettersson, Director General at Nationalmuseum, Sweden, is an art historian specializing in museum history and collection studies. Before moving to Stockholm she worked as Director of the Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery.

Dr. Pettersson has worked for more than twenty years in museums. Her posts have included Director of the Finnish Institute in London, Director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation and Museum and Director of Development at the Finnish National Gallery. She is also Adjunct Professor in Museology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Associate Professor at the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is a founding member if the Iconic Houses Network (www.iconichouses.org) and has participated in several national public governance and international working groups such as European Union’s OMC working group on Collections Mobility (2008-2010). Dr. Pettersson’s research interests include museum history, collection studies, history of art history as well as 19th -century and modern art, and she publishes widely. She's Vice-President of the Aalto University Board (Finland), and board member at the Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde (Sweden) and the American Friends of the Nationalmuseum (New York).

Work

  • Director @ Finnish National Gallery
  • Director @ The Finnish Institute in London
  • Director @ Alvar Aalto Foundation / Alvar Aalto Museum

Education

  • 1987 2008 Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, Art @ Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

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