Mads Kähler Holst

Mads Kähler Holst (born 30 August 1973) is a Danish archaeologist and museum curator. He is the current director of Moesgaard Museum and a professor at Aarhus University.

Education and career Holst studied prehistoric archaeology at Aarhus University and obtained his PhD in 2004. His research has focused on Bronze Age and Iron Age wetland sites in Denmark, As director of the Moesgaard Museum, he also heads a project to document submerged Stone Age sites around the coasts of Jutland. and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2020.

Moesgaard Museum Holst has worked at Moesgaard Museum since 2006. Under Holst's direction, the museum's budget initially went from a 10.4 million Danish krone deficit in 2016, to a 1.2 million kr. surplus in 2017, but faced major economic difficulties in 2020 as a result of closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.