Xavier Dectot

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Born (1973-06-08) June 8, 1973 (age 52)
Pithiviers, France
Occupationmuseum curator
ThesisUne politique de la mort: Tombeaux royaux de la péninsule ibérique, XIeXIIIe siècle
Xavier Dectot
Born (1973-06-08) June 8, 1973 (age 52)
Pithiviers, France
Occupationmuseum curator
Academic background
Alma materÉcole des chartes
Institut national du patrimoine
Casa de Velázquez
École pratique des hautes études
ThesisUne politique de la mort: Tombeaux royaux de la péninsule ibérique, XIeXIIIe siècle
Academic work
Disciplineart history
InstitutionsÉcole du Louvre
Musée de Cluny
Louvre-Lens
National Museum of Scotland
Lusail Museum

Xavier Dectot, born on June 8, 1973 in Pithiviers, is a French museum curator and art historian.

A former curator at the Musée de Cluny, specialising in sculptures and ivories from the Middle Ages, he has been director of the Louvre-Lens from 2011 to 2016 and Keeper of Art and Design at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh from 2016 to 2019. Since 2019, he is the director of the Lusail Museum in Doha, Qatar.

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