Helena Barranha
Helena Barranha is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, and a Researcher at the Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she is a member of the Museum Studies Group and coordinates the Cluster on Art, Museums and Digital Cultures. Since March 2022, she is also President of the Access Culture Association.
She has a Master’s Degree in the Management of Cultural Heritage (University of Algarve, 2001) and a PhD in Architecture, with the thesis Architecture of Contemporary Art Museums in Portugal. From Urban Intervention to the Design of Exhibition Space (University of Porto). She was the Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado, in Lisbon (2009-2012), Principal Investigator of the unplace project – a museum without a place(2014-2015) and Co-coordinator of the international collaborative project Post-Internet Cities (2017).
Her current research focuses on cultural heritage, the architecture of contemporary art museums and digital cultures and she has published widely on these topics, both in Portugal and abroad. In 2021, she co-edited the book: Museums and Digital Cultures – Rethinking Change (available in open access at:https://museumdigitalcultures....).