Drs. Marja M. C. van Heese


Guest speakers per committee: Oudemanhuispoort, Saturday 9th

Third Committee

3.30 – 4.45 pm – Iraq’s Cultural Herritage
Drs. Marja M. C. van Heese
Marja van Heese is an art historian (Leiden University). Since 1994 she has been an inspector in what is now the Collections and Archives Division of the Cultural Heritage Inspectorate, an independent Directorate within the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in The Hague. The Cultural Heritage Inspectorate focuses among other things on state-owned collections housed in national museums and in the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage as well as on objects protected under the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act, EU-legislation on cultural goods and the UNESCO-Conventions 1970 and 1954. Within the Cultural Heritage Inspectorate, Marja van Heese is responsible for ensuring implementation of EU and international legislation on cultural goods. She takes a special interest in protection against trafficking in cultural property.