Rebecca Matthews Appointed Director of ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum Amid Expansion Plans

Rebecca Matthews has been named the new director of ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark. Before this role, she worked for seven months at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft starting in May 2021. She also led the European Capital of Culture project for Aarhus in 2017 and managed Goodenough College in London for two years. Her experience includes being the director of global partnerships for the British Council and managing international programs at the Australia Council for the Arts, which involved the Venice Biennale in 2003 and 2005. The museum, Denmark’s oldest public art institution outside of Copenhagen, attracts 600,000 visitors each year and is planning to add a new 1,000 square meter underground exhibition space along with a permanent piece by James Turrell called The Dome, aiming to replicate the success of Olafur Eliasson’s Your Rainbow Panorama, which boosted visitor attendance after its debut in 2011.