Biography Silvia Filippini Fantoni

Silvia Filippini Fantoni is Director of Interpretation, Media and Evaluation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art . Before the IMA, she worked at the British Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Louvre and she has done projects for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, and The National Portrait gallery in the UK.

Silvia completed her PhD at Sorbonne University, Paris, on the use of personalization technologies in museums. As part of her PhD research, she has studied the use of bookmarking in museums, conducting a series of evaluations on this topic. She has presented on her PhD research as well as projects she has been working on at various international conferences.

At the “Shaping Access” conference, she will discuss the visitor-centered exhibition design process adopted by the Indianapolis Museum of Art.