Susan Hazan
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Susan Hazan (Hebrew: סוזן חזן) is a museum curator based in Jerusalem, Israel. She has been a curator at the Israel Museum for much of her career and is known for promoting digital aspects of museum access,[1][2][3] especially in the form of virtual museums.[4]
1952 (age 73–74)
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| Born | Susan J. Markless 1952 (age 73–74) London, England |
| Education | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Occupation | Museum curator |
| Years active | 1991 onwards |
| Employer | Israel Museum |
| Known for | Head of the Internet Office, Israel Museum; Chair of the Europeana Network Association; Dead Sea Scrolls digital project |
| Notable work | Israel Museum website (1995) |
| Website | museumsphere.com |
Hazan studied for MA (2000), MPhil (2002), and PhD (2004) degrees at Goldsmiths, University of London,[5] with a thesis entitled Mapping the Musesphere: Cultures of Exhibition and Technologies of Display.[6]
Susan Hazan has been Senior Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at the Israel Museum from 1991 to 2020.[5] In particular, she produced and developed the museum's first website from the mid-1990s.[7][8] She has also been instrumental in a digital project to make the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible more widely around the world in different languages.[9][10][11]
In parallel from 2004, Hazan has led the EVA/MINERA Jerusalem conference series, covering electronic visualisation and the arts.[12] She has also been Chair of the Europeana Network Association during 2021 to 2022,[13] with the aim to make museum collections around Europe accessible online, including the European Commission's New European Bauhaus initiative.[14]
Since 2019, Hazan has been the CEO of Digital Heritage, Israel.[15]
