Director of Danish Museums

Director

Do you want to be a unifying profile for the Danish museums, set an ambitious strategic direction and ensure the museums a strong common voice? Can you combine political acumen and strategic outlook with hands-on leadership and good collaboration skills? Then you should take a closer look at the position as Director of Danske Museer.

Museums in Denmark have great cultural and societal significance and had 2025 17.6 million visits. Danske Museer, as an interest organization, brings together 172 museums and conservation centers – including all state-recognized and state museums – and works for favorable framework conditions, visibility and development for the museums.

As director, you will be responsible for Danske Museer's strategic and organizational development. You report to the board and, in close collaboration with it and the secretariat, translate ambitions into priorities, actions and results.

You set the long-term direction, strengthen the organization's political position and influence the museums' framework conditions through diligent advocacy. It requires you to be strategically strong, politically adept, and able to achieve results through relationships.

We are looking for a director who has experience with advocacy and board collaboration as well as an understanding of political decision-making processes. You have relevant networks and insight into the museum sector or a related cultural area and can naturally create legitimacy in the role.

You gather a diverse membership of museums across size, discipline, geography and organization. As the museums' representative you communicate clearly outward, are present and engaged in the museum landscape and build trust internally. You lead a small, highly qualified secretariat and ensure clear direction, sharp priorities, employee well-being and responsible financial management.

As a leader you are clear, unifying and decisive. You create followership through credibility, integrity and professional depth. You combine impact with diplomacy and communicate confidently across strategic, political and organizational levels.

Your workplace will be Vartov in Copenhagen, and a fair amount of travel can be expected.

Read more at www.danskemuseer.dk and in the job and profile (pdf). Apply via the application button no later than 16. november 2026 . Start date expected 1 February 2027.

Questions about the position can be directed to the museum director and chair of Danske Museer Claus Kjeld Jensen, tel. 2938 6664, or partner at Genitor Trine Kern Schandorff, tel. 31 41 02 55 or [email protected]. All inquiries treated confidentially.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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