Wiebke Ahrndt (born November 6, 1963 in Braunschweig) is a German ethnologist and university lecturer. She has been director of the Überseemuseum in Bremen since 2002. She has been a professor at the University of Bremen in the Institute for Art Studies and Art Education since 2006.
Life.
After two semesters in Braunschweig, Wiebke Ahrndt studied Ethnology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1984. Ethnology, Ancient History as well as Prehistory and Early History. This was followed by a year of study at the University of California Los Angeles. Ahrndt completed his studies in Bonn with a master's degree. She received her doctorate in 1995. Her studies focused on the ethnology of ancient America. From 1996, she completed a scientific traineeship at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg. She deepened her knowledge of America during an exchange program of the German Research Foundation in Mexico. She then worked in Basel as a freelancer on exhibition concepts and as a permanent curator. In 2002, she moved to the Übersee-Museum in Bremen. On May 11, 2022, she was elected President of the Deutscher Museumsbund.