Books By Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma - Author

Prof. Dr. Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma (1958) is curator in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and organiser of the international colloquium on the vase collection of Lucien Bonaparte in 2015. His main interest lies in the origin and history of the collections of classical art in European collections. Besides his appointment as curator, Halbertsma is professor at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. key publications 2003: Scholars, Travellers and Trade – The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840, Londen-New York (182 pp., uitg. Routledge). 2007: Niederländische Sammlungen antiker Skulptur in historischer Perspektive: Ruhm, Frömmigkeit und Wissenschaft, Kölner Jahrbuch 40, 45-55. 2008: Creating Antiquity: from an Archaeological Cabinet to a National Museum in the Netherlands, Leiden 1818-1840, in: Tsingarida, A./Verbanck-Piérard (edd.), L’Antiquité au service de la Modernité? La reception de