Marien van der Heijden

Staff Member Collection Development

E-mail: mvh@iisg.nl
Department: Collection Development

Studied Art History at the University of Utrecht. He started working at the IISH in 1984, with the Image and Sound department. From 1990 to 1995 he worked at the National Trades Union Museum in Amsterdam, where he organized exhibitions on social history and social art, often with items from the IISH collection.

Returning to the IISH, he became responsible for collection development Image and Sound, including the Institute's collection of Chinese propaganda posters on which he has been working ever since (see chineseposters.net ). He headed the department of Digital Projects from 2000 until mid 2008.

From mid 2008 to 2013 he worked on many projects involving digitization of the IISH collections and presenting the results online, such as the digitization project 'Collection De Centrale', and the Social History Portal (socialhistoryportal.org ).

From 2014 until 2024 he was head of the department of Collection Development.

From 1995 to 2025 he was member of the Coordination Committee / Board of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI); from 2012 to 2025 of the editorial board of the Biografisch Woordenboek van Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland (BWSA), from 2020 to 2025 of the Advisory Committee of the Safe Havens for Archives at Risk Initiative .

Membership of Boards and Committees