Dr Sandro Debono is a museum thinker, keynote speaker, consultant and art historian with a background in contemporary museology and museum studies. He is the brains behind the MUZA concept, originally developed as a wireframe guiding the rethinking of Malta’s National Museum of Fine Arts and lately honoured by the French government for his contribution to the arts and culture.

He is the national representative at the European Museum Academy and founding member of We Are Museums Lab, an international platform of museum change makers and innovators based in Paris. He has recently also  joined the international advisory board of the Anchorage Museum (Alaska U.S.A.).

Sandro has lectured in museology, museum futures and art-related subjects at Cambridge University, the Leicester School of Museum Studies, Goldsmiths University, UNISA university in Salerno, the Universities of Campania, Cassino and Macerata in Italy, Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, Gallerie Nazionale Barberini-Corsini in Rome, the Accademia per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples and other high profile cultural institutions. He is still active as a visiting lecturer with some of these institutions too.

Sandro’s main international exhibitions include Mattia Preti – Faith and Humanity (2013) which is also the first-ever international exhibition entirely dedicated to Mattia Preti, Malta Land of Sea (2017) at BOZAR Centre of Fine Arts in Brussels and Valletta Capitale d’Europa (2018) at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.