Queenie Lin is a PhD researcher at KITLV and Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University. Her work examines the heritage preservation of climate-challenged Dutch overseas settlements in Monsoon Asia—particularly in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. 

She investigates how multicultural encounters within these VOC port cities fostered the circulation of environmental knowledge, building technologies, and materials, forming a dynamic intra-Asian knowledge exchange network. It aims to find future strategies through reimagining the past—triangulating the living heritage, maritime cultural landscape, environmental adaptations, as well as the contemporary socio-economic conundrums facing coastal communities.

Queenie’s background spans art and architectural history (MA, University of Virginia, USA), conservation of fine art (MA, Northumbria University, UK), and underwater cultural heritage (UNESCO Foundation Course). This multidisciplinary training underpins her professional experience across academia, museums, and think tanks in Asia, America and Europe. She works as a consultant across art and cultural sectors, with recent collaborations including facilitating the “ARQVA” project for the Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies program by TBA21–Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Academy, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, and Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática (Spain). It explores possibilities of engaging art with underwater archaeology, environmental preservation, and regional regeneration. Her ongoing project collaborating with the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague and Design Academy Eindhoven—“Artifacting a Dutch Flooded Archaeo-Landscape”—examines collective memory, territorial belonging, and climate challenges.

Previously, Queenie founded and headed the Conservation Center at Juming Museum (Taiwan), served as a researcher with the UNESCO Chair in Water, Ports and Historic Cities, and worked as editor of Blue Papers: Water & Heritage for Sustainable Development. She is an active member of ICOMOS Netherlands and ICOM Netherlands, and a council member of the International Advisory Council of the Global Urban History Project.

Selected Publications

Lin, Queenie, 'Beyond the sea: The art of connecting the ARQVA Museum, human and the more-than-human entities along the Murcia coast', TBA21 on stage, 2025.
 
Lin, Queenie, '(Re)visiting and (re)valuing the vanishing water heritage in VOC Asia: Dutch Malacca and Ceylon', Blue Papers 2-2, 2023. 
 
Lin, Queenie & Yin-Chun Wei, 'Integrating water into heritage conservation — Cheng Mei Ancestral Hall, 2nd Babao Irrigation Canal, and Yongjing', in: Tino Mager (ed.), Water heritage – global perspectives for sustainable development, pp. 319–341, 2020. 
 
Lin, Queenie, Tsung-Hung Li, Ku-Shan Shih & Yin-Chun Wei, 'Fostering and safeguarding a sustainable heritage for all: Conservation of the Cheng Mei Ancestral Hall, Taiwan', in: Ya-Ning Yen and Chao-Shiang Li (eds.), 2020 ICOMOS 6 ISCs Joint Meeting Proceedings: Advancing risk management for the shared future 121–140, 2020.  

Lin, Queenie & Hung-Jen Huang, 'Tracing, representing, and passing on Hoklorized Hakka heritage: Cheng Mei Cultural Park', Museology Quarterly 34-2: 5-41. [林韻丰、黃 宏仁。福佬客文化的追溯、再現與傳承—以成美文化園為例。博物館學季刊。] 

Collaborative Artistic Production

Artifacting a Dutch flooded archaeo-landscape, 2025.
 
Enseres; Una crítica social a través de los objetos [Household items; A social critique through objects], 2025.

Arqueologías del hidrocomún, constelaciones del Mediterráneo occidental [Hidrocomon archaeologies; Constellations of the Western Mediterranean), Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies: Year Zero, 2025.