Organisation

The Groninger Museum is extrovert, quirky and colourful. Its high-quality collections and presentations constitute the foundations upon which the connections between visitors and the museum and visitors amongst themselves are strengthened. The Groninger Museum therefore aims to amaze an audience as broad as possible, prompt to form an opinion, and invite frequent and diverse use.

The Board of Trustees of the Stichting Groninger Museum voor Stad en Lande (Groninger City and Country Museum Foundation) consists of the following individuals:

Mr Jacques Wallage (chair, audit committee and remuneration committee)

Additional positions:

- Board member of Youth Smoking Prevention

- Visiting professor University of Groningen

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Ms Cathy Jager (superintendent)

Head of the office of collections and exhibitions, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Additional position:

- Member, board of trustees, Museum Speelklok (Musical Clock Museum), Utrecht

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Mr Koen Perik (chair audit committee)

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Mr Sander Prinsen (member, remuneration committee)

Move Fast Ventures

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Prof. dr. Elmer Sterken (member, audit committee)

Professor of monetary economics, University of Groningen;

Special advisor to the board, University of Groningen

Additional positions:

- Chair of the supervisory board of the University of Humanistic Studies

- Chair of the board of QANU

- Chair of the board of the Socrates foundation.

- Secretary/treasurer of the Nicolaas Mulerius Foundation

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Ms Charlotte Wekker (superintendent)

Lecturer in social studies, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen

Strategic policy advisor on inclusion and diversity to the Board of Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Counselor municipality Westerkwartier

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Remuneration policy

The offices of the chair and members of the Board of Trustees are unpaid positions. The chair and members receive a compensation for expenses incurred.

Management salaries are in proportion to the size of the organisation and the nature of the duties. The Groninger Museum adheres to the collective labour agreement for museums.

The exhibition programme of the Groninger Museum is compiled by the artistic director and the curators of the museum. They are active and attentive in the field and invite artists or fellow institutions to come to exhibitions. The programme is fixed approximately two years in advance.

Exhibition and project proposals can nevertheless be submitted by sending them to Fabiola Bierhoff (Exhibition Manager) at the following e-mail address: fbierhoff@groningermuseum.nl. Your proposal must include a motivation (1 page) and a maximum of 6 images (.jpeg, 300 dpi, maximum 1MB). Unfortunately, we cannot send feedback. If your proposal is successful, we will contact you.

The Groninger Museum is happy to make the more than 60,000 objects from the collection available on loan to domestic and foreign (museum) institutions. We believe it is very important that the collection is not only preserved, but also displayed, so that it remains the subject of discussion, interpretation and awareness. It is our aim that as many people as possible can come into contact with our collection.

Request a loan? Follow the loan procedure to make the application as efficient as possible.

Download loan procedure.

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