Dr. Bruno Brulon Soares is a Reader in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, where his research focusses on the relationships of museums with society, practices of collecting, and the political uses of heritage.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Museum of Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean, in Marseilles, a member ICOM Standing Committee on Ethics, and Chair of the International Committee for Social Museology.

His most recent book, The Anticolonial Museum, explores the rhetoric of decolonisation in museum theory and its political and material consequences in Europe and Latin America.