Ioana Zamfir

Work Experience
Museographer National Museum of Maps and Old Books July 2017 – Present
Collaborating Teacher University of Bucharest – Cultural Studies Department 2019 – 2021
Translator Ratio et Revelatio Publishing House 2016 – 2018
Museum Educator National Romanian Museum of Art (MNAR) 2011 – 2012

Education and Formation
PhD – Doctor Europeus in Philology Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest October 2018 – 2023 Thesis: The Image of Jerusalem in 16th Century Cartography and Travel Literature
MA in Cultural Studies Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest October 2011 – October 2013
BA in Art History Faculty of History, University of Bucharest October 2008 – October 2011

Scholarships

● DAAD Scholarship, Kassel, Germany – February-April 2020
● Erasmus Scholarship, Université Paris Nanterre, France – 2019
● Erasmus Scholarship, Tübingen Universität, Germany – March-August 2016
● Erasmus Scholarship, Leiden University, Netherlands – 2012-2013
● Romanian Cultural Institute Scholarship - Kinneret Regional Project, Israel – June-July 2011

Courses and Trainings

● 03-07.06.2024 – Internship, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa
● 24-27.05.2024 – Internship, Museo Galileo, Firenze
● 26-27.10.2023 – Internship, Map Section, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
● 03-07.08.2023 – Internship, Plantin Moretus Museum, Antwerp
● 12-16.06.2023 – Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam – I ASK course
● 04-05.03.2022 – Formation session by the National Network of Museums
● 04-10.10.2021 – Course, Effective and Innovative Techniques to Create Accessible and Attractive Cultural Offers – DOM Spain, Reus, Spain
● 26.03.2021 – Workshop, Ideas in Dialogue: Museums and Scientific Research, Doctoral School of History, Civilization and Culture, University Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca
● 12-14.04.2019 – Workshop, Organizing Temporary Exhibitions, Heritage Management Organization, Athens
● 28.01-03.02.2019 – Course, How to Make Exhibitions, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
● 27-29.11.2018 – Workshop, Cultural Heritage for Mental Health Recovery, Dr. Guislain Museum, Ghent
● July 8-14, 2018 – Summer School in Philosophy and Theology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj
● July 2018 – Attending the Piet Jaspaert: Cultural Heritage Matters conference, Bucharest, Cultural Management Academy
● September 20-28, 2017 – Summer School on Hebrew Bible: Translation and Interpretation, Cristian, Romania
● October 2015 – Course, How Can Cultural Professionals Work with Schools, M3 Association – Support Culture in Education
● 01-12.09.2014 – SIEM, Museologie des Édifices Religieux, Ecole du Louvre, Paris
● 21-26.09.2015 – Cologne Summer School of Interdisciplinary Anthropology, The Phenomenality of Material Things
● 06-14.07.2011 – Art History Seminar, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Italy

Other Activities
● 2019-Present – Coordinating volunteers and student internships at the National Museum of Maps and Old Books, collaboration with the University of Bucharest, Faculty of History, Faculty of Geography, Faculty of Letters, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Goethe High School
● 2017-Present – Guided tours, National Museum of Maps and Old Books

● 2022-2027 – Project Manager, National Museum of Maps and Old Books – Project of Accreditation for Adult Education (Erasmus + KA1)
● 2022-2023 – Project Manager, DOORS – Hands on the Map – ECSITE, design of an educational museum app for children, National Museum of Maps and Old Books
● September 2022 – Organization of educational workshops in the Open Museum Open Hearts project – project for the inclusion of Ukrainian Refugees coordinated by Câte-n lună și-n mansardă Association
● August 2022 – Organization of educational workshops in the The House with Literatures project – dedicated to minorities in Romania, National Museum of Literature
● 2021 – Participation in the digitization project E-cultura – heritage digitization project of the National Museum of Maps and Old Books
● 2020-2022 – Project Manager, An Educated Museum – A Modern Involved Museum (Erasmus + KA1)
● 2018-2020 – Project Manager, Museum on the Way (Erasmus + KA1)
● 2018 – Project Assistant, Time on the Map, cultural project of the National Museum of Maps and Old Books, funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund

● November 2024 - February 2025 – Unseen City, Cristina Bobe – photography exhibition www.muzeulhartilor.ro/event-item/cristina-bobe-orasul-nevazut/
● May-June 2024 – Georgia – The Cradle of Wine – collaboration with the Embassy of Georgia Georgia – The Cradle of Wine
● December 2023 – February 2024 – Precious Possessions – Romanian Estate Plans Precious Possessions – Romanian Estate Plans
● October 2023 – Art Safari – Monsters and Mythological Creatures on the Maps
● September 2022 – Câmpulung on Maps – Municipality Museum of Câmpulung
● July 2022 – Maps of Nature – National Museum of Natural History Grigore Antipa
● March 2022 – Atypical – The Road to Others (co-curator) – exhibition on Autism and travel, National Museum of Maps and Old Books
● October 2021 – Intervals – Marcel Aciocoiței – commemorative exhibition, National Museum of Maps and Old Books www.muzeulhartilor.ro/event-item/rastimpuri-marcel-aciocoitei/
● December 2020 – Recent Donations – The Fascination of the Ancient World, National Museum of Maps and Old Books
● November 2019 – Recent Donations – Images of Old Jerusalem, National Museum of Maps and Old Books www.muzeulhartilor.ro/event-item/donatii-recente-imagini-ale-vechiului-ierusalim/
● October 2019 – Co-curating The Map of the Connected User, in partnership with ANCOM Romania

● 2025 – Story Maps – A Graphical Journey in the Past (Book), Niculescu Publishing, ISBN: 978-606-38-0991-0
● November 21, 2024 – 7th Edition of the National Conference on Museum Education – Closer to Schools and Students: Nova's Quest – An Interactive Journey through History and Geography
● October 8, 2024 – Bibliothèque Nationale de France – La carte « oeil de l’histoire » (16ᵗʰ-18ᵗʰ century) – Jerusalem as Chronotopos: The Tension between the Textual and Visual Mediums in 16th-Century Geographic Literature
● July 1-5, 2024 – ICHC 2024 – Confluences - Interdisciplinarity and New Challenges in the History of Cartography – Woodland Cartography – Charting Wallachia’s Unique Manuscript Maps
● June 6-7, 2024 – International Conference, Spaces and Routes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Cartography, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon – presentation: Charting Jerusalem: Unveiling Spatial Constructs in Travel Records and Maps (article in progress)
● December 8, 2023 – Musical Cartographies – Topographic Plan of Măcărău Estate in Vlașca District
● July 10-14, 2023 – ISHMap Symposium and Workshop, International Society for the History of the Map – Intersections in Map History, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, Germany
● 2023 – Article, Opening Heritage to Beneficiaries with Cognitive Disabilities: Case Study – The Museum of Maps in Bucharest, Museums Magazine, Issue 1, 2023
● June 7, 2023 – Presentation, Cosmopolitanism and Multiculturalism – Sulina during the European Commission of the Danube within the Round Table on The Ports of the Danubian-Pontic Region
● 2023 – Article, Erasmus Accreditation at the Maps Museum, Heritage and Education Bulletin, ISBN 978-973-0-38372-0
● April 27, 2023 – Participation in the launch of the Open Museum Open Hearts good practices guide
● April 3-4, 2023 – Conference, Heritage Education in a Museum Context, Bucharest
● July 2022 – Attending the ICHC 2022, Bucharest, Romania
● December 2021 – ICC Conference, Florence
● 2021 – Accuracy, Veracity, and Theological Truth in the 16th Century Atlas Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, Proceedings of the ICA, International Conference on Cartography ICC 2021
● 2021 – Elements of the Sacred in Medieval Mapaemundi, in World Religions – Images, Texts, Traditions, ed. Prof. dr. habil. M. Axinciuc, Herald, Bucharest, ISBN 978-973-111-918-2
● 2021 – Jerusalem in Motion. Images of Jerusalem in the Bible and Beyond, Sacred Spaces in Motion, RES (Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu)
● May 27-29, 2021 – National Conference, Verba Volant, Scripta Manent, Museum „Vasile Pârvan”, Bârlad – Cartography and the Romanian School of Geography around the First World War
● May 27-28, 2021 – National Session, The Role of Museums in Romanian Museography, Memorial Museum „Nicolae Iorga", Vălenii de Munte – Guided by Nicolae Iorga: A Walk Along Romanian History on Heritage Maps
● 2020 – Article, Perceptions on Jerusalem in Travel Literature in Late Renaissance, JPIC Journal of Philology and Intercultural Communication
● December 13-14, 2019 – Conference, 7th Euroacademia International Conference Re-Inventing Eastern Europe – Looking Towards East on 16th Century Maps, Prague
● November 27, 2019 – CIVITAS IHERUSALEM – Medieval Jerusalem in the Eyes of Western Travelers, National Museum of Maps and Old Books
● September 25-26, 2019 – Conference, The Best in Heritage, Dubrovnik
● 2019 – Article, Museum Magazine – Vol1/2019 – Museums as Cultural Platforms – A Talkative Heritage at the Maps Museum
● November 22-23, 2019 – Presentation at the 5th Edition of the Cultural Marketing Conference, Gate in the Map and the Applications of the Museum of Maps
● November 13, 2019 – Presentation of the map Romania and Adjacent States during Musical Cartographies
● May 11, 2019 – Presentation, Geographic Terminology in 16th Century Theology, Conference of Master and Doctoral Students, University of Bucharest
● June 8-9, 2018 – Presentation, General Constantin Teodorescu and his Maps in the First World War, Văleni de Munte Conference on Memorial Museums
● April 24, 2018 – Presentation of the map Kingdom of Japan during Musical Cartographies
● November 6, 2017 – Presentation at the conference Knowledge, Reality, Transcendence: A Dialogue Between East and West

Translations
● 2018 – Husserl’s Phenomenology, by Dan Zahavi, published by Ratio et Revelatio
● 2017 – Present – Part of the translation team for The Book of Psalms, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Habil. Madeea Axinciuc