{"id":1464,"date":"2013-11-19T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T10:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/safnarad.is\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2017-09-14T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:49:02","slug":"radning-framkvaemdastjora-safnarads-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/frettir\/2013\/11\/radning-framkvaemdastjora-safnarads-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of the Director of the Museum Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Museum Council has appointed \u00c1g\u00fasta Krist\u00f3fersd\u00f3ttir as the Council&#039;s Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1g\u00fasta has a BA in History and Art History and is currently pursuing a Master&#039;s degree in Museology. She has extensive experience in museum work and has worked in that field since 1993. First at the Reykjav\u00edk Museum of Art, \u00c1rb\u00e6jarsafn and then as Head of the Exhibitions Department at the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum and Director of Exhibitions at the National Museum of Iceland. She has also worked in the social affairs of museum workers and was chair of the F\u00cdSOS Association of Icelandic Museums and Museum Owners from 2007-2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1g\u00fasta has served as the Director of the Museum Council on and off since 2010 in a variety of capacities.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 44 people applied for the position. The recruitment process was overseen by Capacent, but the final decision on hiring was made at a meeting of the museum board.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Museum Council has appointed \u00c1g\u00fasta Krist\u00f3fersd\u00f3ttir as the Council&#039;s Executive Director. \u00c1g\u00fasta holds a BA in History and Art History and is currently pursuing a Master&#039;s degree in Museology. She has extensive experience in museum work and has worked in that field since 1993. First at the Reykjav\u00edk Museum of Art, \u00c1rb\u00e6jarsafn, and then as Head of the Exhibitions Department at the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum and Curator of the \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}