Willemijn van Noord
Curator China, Wereldmuseum
Willemijn van Noord is curator China at Wereldmuseum (comprising institutions formerly known as Tropenmuseum Amsterdam, Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden, and Wereldmuseum Rotterdam). After completing her studies in archaeology and sinology at Leiden University and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, she has worked as trainee-curator at the British Museum and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, focusing on Ming dynasty (1368–1644) porcelain and Qing dynasty (1644–1911) glass and snuff-bottles. In 2024, she successfully defended her PhD thesis Materialising China: material culture and perceptions of China in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.
