Marien van der Heijden
Volunteer Collection Development
- E-mail: mvh@iisg.nl
- Department: Collection Development
Studied Art History at the University of Utrecht. He started working at the Image and Sound department of the IISH late 1984 as conscientious objector to military service, cataloging the Dutch poster collection. From 1990 to 1995 he was seconded to 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 and was involved in a growing number of acquisitions and projects related to the internet. 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 ).
He was head of the department of Collection Development from 2014 until 2024, and retired July 2025.
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 .
As volunteer he will be working on the Institute's collection of Chinese propaganda posters (see chineseposters.net ).
Membership of Boards and Committees
VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/12465570/
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42766762
