Marien van der Heijden
Profile
- member of the Coordination Committee of the International Association of Labour History Institutions
- treasurer of the Chinese Posters Foundation
- member of the Editorial Committee of the Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland
- member of the Conseil Scientifique de la BDIC
- member of the Conseil Scientifique du Labex - Les Passés dans le présent
Studied Art History at the University of Utrecht. He started working at the IISH in 1984, with the Image and Sound department. From 1990 to 1995 he worked at the National Trades Union Museum in Amsterdam, where he organized exhibitions on social history and social art. Returning to the IISH, he became responsible for collection development Image and Sound, including the Institute's collection of Chinese propaganda posters (see chineseposters.net). He headed the department of Digital Projects from 2000 until mid 2008.
From 2009 to 2013 he worked on many projects involving digitization of the IISH collections and presenting the results online, such as the digitization project 'Collection De Centrale', and the Social History Portal (socialhistoryportal.org).
From 2014 he is head of Collection Development.
Membership of Boards and Committees
Selected publications
- Jan Rot. Leven en werk van een sociaal-democratisch tekenaar (Amsterdam 1988)
- De burcht van Berlage. Van bondsgebouw tot Vakbondsmuseum (Amsterdam 1991)
- Henri Polak. Grondlegger van de moderne vakbeweging 1868-1943 (Amsterdam 1991) [with Wietske van Agtmaal]
- Albert Hahn (Amsterdam 1993)
- Strijd in overleg. 100 jaar beeldvorming over arbeid, arbeider en vakbeweging (Amsterdam 1995) [with Bram Kempers]
- Museums in Revolution. Four historical museums in Moscow (Amsterdam 1998)
- De Burcht. Het bondsgebouw van H.P. Berlage, R.N. Roland Holst en de ANDB (Amsterdam 2001)
- De bond in glas en lood. Ramen en ontwerpen van Willem A. van de Walle (Utrecht 2002) - see www.iisg.nl/collections/walle/
- Chinese Posters: The IISH-Landsberger Collections (München etc. 2009) [with Stefan R. Landsberger and Kuiyi Shen]
- Trying to find a Masked Man. An Unfinished Investigation, in: Aad Blok, Jan Lucassen, Huub Sanders (eds), A Usable Collection. Essays in Honour of Jaap Kloosterman on Collecting Social History (Amsterdam 2014) pp. 186-197 [with Franck Veyron]