Curator Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen

Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen is curator at The Old Town. National Open Air Museum of Urban History and Culture, Denmark.
Engelhardt Mathiassen is an expert on historical dress and textile and has published extensively on these subjects and has organised various exhibitions on the cultural history of costume and dress. She is the co-author of Costume in a Museological Context: Dealing with Costume and Dress from Modern Danish History (with Helle Leilund) in Dressing the Past (ed. Margarita Gleba, Cherine Munkholt and Marie-Louise Nosch), Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series Vol. 3, 2008. In the Fashioning the Early Modern research project she will host an excursion of an international conference on October 7th 2011. Her research is focused on textiles imported to Denmark.