Museum Salling is a professionally based museum that is state-recognized, which means that it is covered by the Museum Act. According to the requirements of the Act, Museum Salling’s professional staff is responsible for practicing research within the museum’s four subject areas: 1) archaeology, 2) modern times, 3) art and 4) nature. The research responsibility is written into Museum Salling’s statutes and action plan for research. Click and read more in the following:
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Research plan 2021-2025 – Scientific publications 2016-2023 – Popular science publications 2016-2023
Find a researcher: Archaeology – Recent history – Art – Nature
Watch a report from TVMidtVest about PhD student Tilde Mønsted’s project on the Skive painter Hans Smidth:
The artist’s West Jutland paintings inspired a Skagen painter – yet we know very little about him | TV MIDTVEST
Archaeology
| Kirstine Krath Helweg Team Leader, Team Archaeology. Cand.mag. in Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology |
Medieval rural settlement and agriculture. Prehistoric and historic horticulture. Archaeobotany. Archaeological costumes and textiles. |
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| Helle Holm Hansen Museum Curator, Team Archaeology. Cand.mag. in prehistoric and medieval archaeology. |
Early Iron Age (500 BC – 200 AD). Hard-cast bronze belts from the pre-Roman Iron Age (also called North Jutland belts). | |
| Inge Kjær Kristensen Senior Researcher, Team Archaeology |
Bronze Age. | See more on Google Scholar |
| Terkel Brannet Museum Curator, Team Archaeology. Cand.mag. prehistoric archaeology |
Neolithic and Palaeolithic. Detector archaeology and reconnaissance. Collection. |
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| Turi Thomsen Museum Curator, Communication Team. Cand.mag. medieval Archaeology |
Medieval, Renaissance and modern castles, manor houses and ramparts. Dykes. |
More recent times
| Majken Høgh Olsen Mag.art. in art history Art and culture communicator, Team Communication |
Works with both art and recent history. Danish modernism, neo-realism, medieval art, Romanesque stone art. The visual artist Emilie Demant Hatt. Oyster fishing in the Limfjord. |
See more on Google Scholar |
| Kristian Buhl Thomsen City archivist, Skive City Archives, Team Archive. PhD in history. |
Urban history, urban planning, redevelopment, urban renewal, building preservation. 19th century, 20th century. | |
| Kaspar Tjalve Team Leader, Team Conservation. Cand.mag. in History. |
Sports activities and facilities, commercial sailing, raw material extraction and processing. |
Art
| Tilde Mønsted Klein PhD fellow, cand.mag. in art history. Aarhus University and Museum Salling. |
Reactualization and reinterpretation of the Danish artist Hans Smidth (1839-1917). |
See more at Aarhus University here |
| Majken Høgh Olsen Mag.art. in art history Art and culture communicator, Team Communication |
Works with both art and recent history. Danish modernism, neo-realism, medieval art, Romanesque stone art. The visual artist Emilie Demant Hatt. Oyster fishing in the Limfjord. |
See more on Google Scholar |
Nature
| Frank Osbæck Geological Conservator, Conservation Team. Studies in geology, self-taught paleontological conservator. |
Paleontological preparation. Eocene, Miocene, Paleontological preparation and conservation. Current project together with Associate Professor Johan Lingreen, Lund University. To be published during 2023 in Nature. |
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| Bo Pagh Schultz Museum Curator, Fur, Team Dissemination MSc in geology. |
Fossil preserved colors. Global warming at its peak in the early Eocene (PETM event). Migration of the Arctotertiary Flora with the immigration of the deciduous forest type to Europe. Giant crystals as temperature and environmental indicators in the past. Didactic methods in teaching Geology to children. |
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| René Lyng Sylvestersen Museum Curator, Fur, Conservation Team. MSc in Geology. |
The early Eocene deposits in the western part of the Limfjord (the molar), focusing on biota, volcanism and climate. |
