Head Curator of the Sculpture Collection
Associate General Director
dignatiadou@culture.gr

Dr Despina Ignatiadou is Head Curator of the Sculpture Collection, and Associate General Director at the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum, and formerly Head Curator of the Metalwork Collection, and Associate Director at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

She studied Archeology and History of Art at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Conservation of Antiquities at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, holding a scholarship of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. Her PhD thesis from AUTh is now a monograph entitled Colorless glass for the elite in ancient Macedonia.

She has participated in excavations in Greece and abroad (Thessaloniki, Dion, Aigai, Agios Petros, Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonia, Labraunda in Caria, Wroxeter in England). She co-curated and couriered several archaeological exhibitions, such as The Gold of Macedon and Glass Cosmos, also co-authoring their catalogues/guide books.

She publishes on various aspects of ancient Greek material culture: glassworking, metalworking and luxury materials, sculpture, painting, religion and symbolism, burial customs, magic, pre-Roman medicine and pharmacology, board games, plants and animals, and archaeometry.

She teaches special subjects upon invitation from universities in Greece and abroad. She is a member of the Archaeological Society in Athens, a corresponding member of the Archaeological Institute of America, and a corresponding member of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum Awards Committee.

https://namuseum.academia.edu/DespinaIgnatiadou/CurriculumVitae