Prof. Dr. Oliver Rump

Vita

From 1987 to 1993, he studied folklore, social and economic history, and geography at the Universities of Hamburg and Kiel. From 1989 to 2001, he worked at the Kiekeberg Open-Air Museum. From 1993 to 2008, he was a lecturer and co-founder of the Museum Management programme at the University of Hamburg. In 1999, he was awarded a PhD for his thesis ‘Controlling for Museums’. From 2001 to 2008, he served as Director of the Museum of Communication in Hamburg. From 2002 to 2012, he chaired the Museumsverband Hamburg e.V., which he co-founded. Since 2005, he has been a lecturer on the continuing professional development programme in Museum Management at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin). Since 2008, he has been a full-time professor in the fields of museology, museum management and marketing at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin). Since 2025, he has been a lecturer on the ‘Curating’ certificate course at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). His main areas of expertise are museology, museum management and political museology. He also developed the documentation and museum management software ‘FirstRumos’. He is a co-founder of the ‘Working Group on Museum Management’ and the author and editor of various museological publications. In addition to his membership of academic advisory boards (including the historical research theatre Vajswerk e.V. and the German-Russian Museum in Karlshorst), he has fostered international museum management collaborations (including in Ethiopia, France, India, Iran, Cuba, Russia and Vietnam).