Dr. Annemarieke Willemsen is curator of the Medieval collections at the National Museum of Antiquities (Leiden) and director of the Dorestad Congress. In Leiden, she organized the 2009 exhibition and congress on Carolingian Dorestad and the 2014 exhibition and congress on the early-medieval Netherlands. Next to books about Dorestad and the Vikings in the Netherlands, she published extensively on Roman and medieval children, toys, education, fashion and accessories.
Hanneke Kik M.A. is project manager at the National Museum of Antiquities (Leiden) and secretary of the Dorestad Congress.