| Susan Hazan | |
| Birth Name: | Susan J. Markless |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Nationality: | Dual Israeli/British |
| Education: | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Employer: | Israel Museum |
| Occupation: | Museum curator |
| Years Active: | 1991 onwards |
| Known For: | Head of the Internet Office, Israel Museum; Chair of the Europeana Network Association; Dead Sea Scrolls digital project |
| Notable Works: | Israel Museum website (1995) |
| Website: | museumsphere.com |
Susan Hazan is a museum curator based in Jerusalem, Israel. She has been a curator at the Israel Museum for much of her career and is known for promoting digital aspects of museum access,[1] [2] [3] especially in the form of virtual museums.[4]
Hazan studied for MA (2000), MPhil (2002), and PhD (2004) degrees at Goldsmiths, University of London, with a thesis entitled Mapping the Musesphere: Cultures of Exhibition and Technologies of Display.[5]
Susan Hazan has been Senior Curator of New Media and Head of the Internet Office at the Israel Museum from 1991 to 2020.[6] In particular, she produced and developed the museum's first website from the mid-1990s.[7] She has also been instrumental in a digital project to make the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible more widely around the world in different languages.[8] [9] [10]
In parallel from 2004, Hazan has led the EVA/MINERA Jerusalem conference series, covering electronic visualisation and the arts.[11] She has also been Chair of the Europeana Network Association during 2021 to 2022,[12] with the aim to make museum collections around Europe accessible online, including the European Commission's New European Bauhaus initiative.[13]
Since 2019, Hazan has been the CEO of Digital Heritage, Israel.[14]
. The EVA Conference 1990–2012: Personal Reflections . 3–4 . James Hemsley . Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture . Jonathan P. . Bowen . Jonathan Bowen . Kia . Ng . Suzanne . Keene . Series on Cultural Computing . . 2013 . 978-1-4471-5405-1 . 10.1007/978-1-4471-5406-8_1 .