Curator of Academic Program

Jeroen ter Brugge

Jeroen ter Brugge (1967), formally curator of the academic program at the Maritime Museum Rotterdam and currently curator of maritime collections at the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) is PHD-student at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communications, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

As a curator he is responsible for the maritime collections at the Rijksmuseum, consisting of the Navy Model Collection and a extensive collection of wreck finds originating from Dutch East-Indiamen, both in the broader context of Dutch History.  

As a PHD-student he studies the Dutch (big) shipbuilding industry in the 19th and 20th Century (1870-1914) with the objective to analyze the slow recovery of the industry to one of the leading ship building countries  This research project focuses on both economic, political, geographical and technical aspects. A by product of his research is the Dutch Shipyard Database, an digit encyclopedia containing diverse information on more than 1.500 shipyards since the early modern period.

He is author of several articles and books on maritime history with a focus on shipbuilding, fisheries, maritime archaeology and the final stage of the Dutch East-India Company.