Peter van Mensch (born June 7, 1947, in Gouda, Netherlands) is a Dutch scholar in the field of museology, and previously a professor of Cultural Heritage at Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Peter van Mensch earned an MSc degree in Zoology and Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam.
Since 1977 till 1982, he was director of educational programmes and exhibitions for the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden.
He earned his PhD degree at the University of Zagreb on the basis of a thesis Towards a Methodology of Museology (1993).
[1] He was appointed as the first professor of cultural heritage at the Amsterdam School of the Arts (2006) and as such, he was responsible for the academy's research program.