Sandra Kobel is an art historian, educational curator and specialist in cultural education and participation. From 2017 to 2024, she headed the Cultural Education Department at Salzburg Museum, where she curated numerous inclusive and interactive exhibitions and participatory learning spaces. Her work focuses in particular on community outreach, sustainable participation-oriented educational strategies and the ongoing development of cultural education practice.
Sandra Kobel studied art history at the University of Salzburg and was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. She subsequently worked at Paris Lodron University Salzburg and at the Salzburg Baroque Museum, among other institutions.
From 2017 until June 2024, she headed the Cultural Education Department at Salzburg Museum and was responsible for the strategic development of cultural education programmes across the museum’s various sites, including the Neue Residenz, Panorama Museum, Folklore Museum, Fortress Museum and Cathedral Excavation Museum.
Since 2016, Sandra Kobel has served on the board of the Österreichischer Verband der Kulturvermittler:innen im Museums- und Ausstellungswesen (Association of Museum and Cultural Educators). From 2018 to 2024, she was also a board member of arbeitskreis neu – Plattform für Kulturvermittlung Salzburg. Between 2019 and 2023, she participated in the interdisciplinary research project Spaces of Cultural Democracy, organised by the inter-university institution Science & Art, a collaboration between Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Mozarteum University Salzburg and Salzburg Museum.
In her practical work, she develops educational and participatory formats for children, young people and adults, as well as interactive exhibitions, projects and continuing education programmes for multipliers, students and cultural educators.
Since October 2024, she has been part of the “Co-CreART. Co-Creating Change!” project at Mozarteum University Salzburg.