Dr. Ellinoor Bergvelt is a specialist on collections and museums. She wrote a Ph.D. on the 19th-century history of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Pantheon der Gouden Eeuw (1998); was co-editor of the two volumes about Dutch collecting in the 17th century, accompanying the exhibition, De wereld binnen handbereik (Distant worlds made tangible; Amsterdam Historical Museum, 1992), of the Dutch Open University volume: Kabinetten, galerijen en musea (20133, 20052 and 19931 ), and of several publications on interior design, including Van neorenaissance tot postmodernisme (1996).
She is, with dr Debora Meijers (UvA) , dr Lieske Tibbe (Radboud University Nijmegen) and dr Elsa van Wezel (Berlin, Institut für Museumsforschung) coordinator of the research project of the Huizinga Instituut: National Museums and national identity (Europe and the United States, c. 1760-1918). See for the assessment (published 23 January 2012): http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.351258.