Martin Olin

Martin Olin received his PhD in art history from Lund University in 2000 with his thesis ‘Det karolinska porträttet: ideologi, ikonografi, identitet’. He became an associate professor in art history at Uppsala University in 2008. He has worked mainly at Sweden’s Nationalmuseum, where he has been Director of Collections since 2023. As a researcher, Olin has investigated the works and collections of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and published a number of thematic articles and a catalogue on Tessin’s drawings for church architecture. He was Deputy Director at the Swedish Institute in Rome 2013–2015, where he taught Italian architectural history from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Olin curated the 17th-century galleries for the Nationalmuseum prior to its reopening in 2018 after the museum’s refurbishment.