Mads Kähler Holst
Danish archaeologist and museum curator (born 1973)
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Mads Kähler Holst FSA (born 30 August 1973)[1] is a Danish archaeologist and museum curator. He is the current director of Moesgaard Museum and a professor at Aarhus University.
Education and career
Holst studied prehistoric archaeology at Aarhus University and obtained his PhD in 2004.[2][3] His research has focused on Bronze Age and Iron Age wetland sites in Denmark,[3] including excavations of the remains of a battle that occurred at Alken Enge around 1 CE.[4][5] As director of the Moesgaard Museum, he also heads a project to document submerged Stone Age sites around the coasts of Jutland.[3]
Holst was appointed an assistant professor at Aarhus in 2007[1] and currently holds the position of professor with special responsibilities.[2] He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters[6] and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2020.[7]
Moesgaard Museum
Holst has worked at Moesgaard Museum since 2006.[1] He was the head of its Antiquarian Department from 2014 and was appointed its executive director in 2016.[2][8] Under Holst's direction, the museum's budget initially went from a 10.4 million Danish krone deficit in 2016, to a 1.2 million kr. surplus in 2017,[9] but faced major economic difficulties in 2020 as a result of closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10][11]