Helena Barranha

Biography

Helena Barranha is a Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, and a Researcher at the Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (IHA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST), where she is a member of the Museum Studies Group and coordinates the Cluster on Art, Museums and Digital Cultures.
She has a Master’s Degree in the Management of Cultural Heritage (University of Algarve, 2001) and a PhD in Architecture with the thesis Architecture of Contemporary Art Museums in Portugal. From Urban Intervention to the Design of Exhibition Space (Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, 2008). She was the Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado, in Lisbon (2009-2012), and President of the Access Culture Association (2022-2023).
Her current research focuses on cultural heritage, the architecture of contemporary art museums and digital cultures and she has published widely on these topics, both in Portugal and abroad. In 2021, she co-edited the book Art, Museums and Digital Cultures – Rethinking Change.
More information and publications available at: https://tecnico.academia.edu/HelenaBarranha