Foreword

Leontine Meijer-van Mensch is deputy director of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Museum of European Cultures – State Museum Berlin) and formerly lecturer of heritage theory and professional ethics at the Reinwardt Academie, Amsterdam. She is active in the board of several (international) museum organizations – for example, chairperson of COMCOL, the ICOM International Committee for Collecting, and board member of the International School of Museology in Celje (Slovenia).