Sanne Houby-Nielsen

Sanne Houby-Nielsen directed the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm, the museum that holds about half of the finds of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition of 1927 to 1931 together with the expedition's archive⁶. A 2006 CAARI News report names her as its director at the March 2006 conference "Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective", which the museum hosted⁶. The dates of her appointment and departure are not recorded.

She wrote the opening essay on the expedition and Swedish prehistoric archaeology in The Cyprus Collections in the Medelhavsmuseet (2003), edited The Swedish Cyprus Expedition on Tour (2005) and the 2009 volume of the 2006 conference papers, and co-edited a Greek and English volume on the expedition with Pavlos Flourentzos^1,2,3,4. In 2009 the museum opened its A.G. Leventis Gallery of Cypriote Antiquities, and Göransson credits her and the architects with the gallery's "sacred place" concept⁷. According to Bourogiannis, the museum's Ayia Irini research project, supported by a seven-year A.G. Leventis fellowship from January 2011, was instigated by Vassos Karageorghis in close collaboration with her as the museum's director then⁸.

In a chapter of 2016 she used John Lindros's field plan of the Ayia Irini sanctuary, other archive material in the museum, the Royal Archive and Westholm's letters. She argued that the published plans of Sjöqvist and Einar Nilson Gjerstad restored and omitted structures, among them circular stone pavements, that Gjerstad's four-"flood" stratigraphy is not supported by the drafts, and that the altar was a Phoenician-type altar with a white plaster cover⁵. The chapter also sets the dig in the politics of Governor Ronald Storrs, whose secretary Rupert Forbes Gunnis made the first trial trench⁵.