Qatar Museums (QM) has announced the appointment of Dr Julia Gonnella,
as director of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Qatar.
She joins the museum from her previous post as curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin.
Julia Gonnella studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, where she gained her BA in Islamic Art and Archaeology (1986) and MA in Social Anthropology (1987), before being awarded her PhD in Islamic Studies and Social Anthropology at Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tubingen in 1994.
She began her career as a student intern at the V&A Museum in London before joining the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin in 1994 as assistant to the chief curator. She was appointed curator of the museum in 2009, where she has worked until her present appointment as director of MIA in Doha.
“I look forward to leading this unique institution into its second decade, building on its extraordinary achievements and opening up new stories of the treasures of
Islamic art,” Dr Gonnella said.
Dr Julia Gonnella
