Prof. Dr. Bernhard Graf

Bernhard Graf was born in 1953. He is the Director of the Institut für Museumsforschung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (SMB-IfM) - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. His scientific background is educational science, psychology and media research. At the Institut für Museumsforschung, he is working in the field of media research and marketing-related questions for museums. His museum-related background is in science-museums and science-centres as well as in exhibition planning for museums of history and other disciplines.
Beside his work at the Institut für Museumsforschung he is teaching and acting as Honorarprofessor für Kulturkommunikation at the Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft.
Prof. Graf has published scientific monographs and articles on evaluation of museum exhibitions, programmes and activities. Furthermore, he has participated in the conceptual work for several new museums or museum complexes in Germany, such as the Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (German History), the different museums of the Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, Saarbrücken (Art, Archaeology and Cultural History), the Heinz-Nixdorf Museums Forum Paderborn (Computer- and Science Museum) or the Neanderthal-Museum in Mettmann, Düsseldorf (Museum of the Human Evolution). He is president of the Landesverband der Museen zu Berlin, board-member of the German museum association Deutscher Museumsbund e.V. and member of the evaluation-board of the Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL) (84 national research institutions, including 7 research-museums).