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Axel Rüger
Director
Van Gogh Museum


Axel Rüger became the Van Gogh Museum’s Director in April 2006. He is in charge of Museum Affairs and Public Affairs. Axel studied Art History at the Freie Universität in Berlin and then at Cambridge, before receiving his PhD at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He worked at a number of museums in Atlanta, Detroit and Washington until 1999, when he was appointed Curator of Dutch Paintings (1600–1800) at the National Gallery in London. Axel was selected in 2004 to take part in the Clore Leadership Programme – a high-level initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation in the UK, which focuses on the development of leadership in the cultural sector.

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