Head of Research and Development
Arkivet Peace and Human Rights Center
PhD
Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (UiO)
Email: jmr@arkivet.no
ABOUT
Josephine Munch Rasmussen is the Head of R&D at Arkivet Peace and Human Rights Center in Kristiansand, Norway. She holds a PhD in archaeology and heritage studies from the University of Oslo (2014). Her research and published work concerns history of institutions and collections, repatriation, cultural heritage diplomacy, and international trade in forged stolen cultural property. From 2022 to 2025 she was a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research. She was the leader of DECOPE, a European research project that involved researchers and heritage professionals in Spain, Norway, Scotland and Ukraine. The project investigated theft and targeting as well as care for cultural heritage in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Museums, Restitution, Heritage Management, Law, Art Crime
WEB-PAGE
arkivet.no/employee/josephine-munch-rasmussen
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE
PROJECTS
- DECOPE (Destructive Exploitation and Care of Cultural Objects. Professional/Public Education for sustainable heritage management). Funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI CH) (2023 – 2025) DECOPE: Destructive Exploitation and Care of Cultural Heritage in Ukraine | Heritage Research Hub (heritageresearch-hub.eu)