Nathaniel Prottas
Nathaniel Prottas is Director of Education and Visitor Services at the Wien Museum (The City Museum of Vienna), Austria. In his role as a senior member of the museum’s staff, he oversees the development of all school, family, and adult programming in the museum’s 17 locations throughout the city. He works closely with curators and conservators to help develop storylines and define questions for special exhibitions and is currently co-developing the museum’s new new permanent exhibition with a team of curators. Before joining the Wien Museum, Nathaniel was Director of Education at the Museum of Biblical Art, held the Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellowship at the Frick Collection, and worked as an educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cloisters, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from University College London, and a BA from The University of Chicago. He has published both on art historical and museum education topics in journals including the Journal of Museum Education, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, and the Journal of the Philosophy of Photography.