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Julia Gonnella (born 1963 inDüsseldorf)[1] is an Islamic scholar, the former director of theMuseum of Islamic Art in Doha and director of the Lusail Museum since 2024.
Gonnella attended theUniversity of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Art andArchaeology in 1986 and a Master of Arts inSocial Anthropology in 1987. She received her PhD in Islamic Studies and Social Anthropology in 1994 from theEberhard-Karls-University inTübingen.[2][3]
While studying, Gonnella worked onGerman excavations inRaqqa,Syria, from 1984 to 1989 and theKuwaiti excavations inBahnasa,Egypt, in 1985. She was part of a German-Syrian excavation of theCitadel of Aleppo from 1996 to 2011 and published the bookThe Citadel of Aleppo about the findings in 2007. She is co-editor and contributor toContents and Contexts: Re-Viewing the Diez Albums from 2017.[4][5][6]
Gonnella worked as a student intern at theVictoria and Albert Museum inLondon, before becoming an assistant to the head curator at theMuseum of Islamic Art at thePergamonmuseum inBerlin in 1994, where she became head curator herself in 2009. In 2017, Gonnella was appointed director of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha, replacing Aisha Al Khater.[2][3][4]
In February 2024, she was appointed director of the new Lusail Museum, with Shaika Nasser Al-Nassr replacing her as director of the MIA.[7][8]
In 2009, Gonnella received aVCU Qatar Fellowship Award for the conference ‘Diverse Are Theis Hues'. She also received the Curatorial Exchange Fellowship from theMetropolitan Museum of Art in 2013.[2][4]
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