HERE: Heritage Reflections

Cindy Zalm

Job title: Head of Realisation and Delivery at the Wereldmuseum Event: HERE 2025 Programme: Workshop Provenance Research in 5 Steps: How to Start Provenance Research Participation year: 2025 Part of HERE: Heritage Reflections

Cindy Zalm is the Head of Realisation and Delivery at the Wereldmuseum in the Netherlands. With a long history in collection management in various museums, she is currently responsible for collection storage and logistics in the Wereldmuseum’s various depots and locations, along with preservation, loan traffic, registration and documentation of the collection.

In recent years, she has coordinated the transport of Wereldmuseum objects to (among others) Indonesia and Nigeria, and she is currently on the supervisory board of the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen. Furthermore, she occasionally teaches about collection management and conservation at the Reinwardt Academie, Amsterdam.