New Head of the LEO Museum

Sophie Seebach is new head of ”LEO Historical Archives and Museum” as of 1 December. She will be in charge of the revitalization of the LEO archives and the museum to ensure that we keep up to date.

In a former porter home at LEO Pharma in Ballerup, Denmark, you will find “LEO Historical Archives and Museum”.  A museum, an archive and a collection that tell a story of a pharmaceutical company which history traces back 400 years to a time when King Christian IV awarded the first Lion Pharmacy in Copenhagen royal license.

As of 1 December 2020, anthropologist Sophie Seebach is new head of the museum, which is run by the LEO Foundation.

“LEO Pharma builds on an incredible history and new chapters are added every day. We have a responsibility to ensure that the history is documented and preserved enabling us to make use of it and learn from it – also many years from now. And we must share the history with LEO Pharma’s employees and stakeholders across the globe – both in physical and digital formats. Sophie Seebach will be in charge of the revitalization of the LEO archives and the museum to ensure that we keep up to date – and I look very much forward to welcoming Sophie,” says Ida Brams from the LEO Foundation.

Sophie Seebach is an anthropologist and has a background from Moesgaard Museum where she was a curator and was responsible for the museum’s ethnographic collection. At Moesgaard Museum, she also managed the blog ethnographica.net which tells the stories behind the artefacts in Moesgaard’s extensive ethnographic collection. Sophie holds a PhD in Anthropology from Aarhus University and a master’s degree from the same university.