As of 1er December 2022, Alexia Fontaine is appointed Scientific Director of the Mulhouse Textile Printing Museum (MISE) Collections Site, on a three-year renewable contract.
Alexia Fontaine holds a PhD in Ethnology from Laval University in Quebec City and a PhD in History from the University of Lille.
His approach and methodology are largely inspired by those practised on the North American continent because of his French-Canadian training. She specialized in the field of industrial heritage and decorative arts, in particular on the Fashion and Textiles collections to which she dedicated a doctoral thesis.
Since 2012, she has been working both in the academic community for teaching and research, and in the field with public museums and private companies.
As Scientific and Collections Manager of the Musée de la Toile de Jouy since 2019, she has collaborated several times with the MISE teams.
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