Who We Are, What We Do
Het Bureau voor Beheer en Behoud is a consultancy for museum and private collections. We advise on how to store, manage and preserve diverse collections and provide services to do so effectively. We are specialised in preventive conservation of heritage objects and collections. By means of risk analyses, housekeeping and monitoring and tuning the indoor climate, appropriate to a collection, we ensure that your collection is preserved as much as possible against deterioration. We also package objects for transport and organise transport. In addition, we specialise in depot design, by means of algorithms. Het Bureau voor Beheer en Behoud is an organization that, with a small team of heritage specialists, helps museums, religious institutions and private collections in their task of caring for cultural heritage. Our job is to preserve valuable objects in a careful manner. We want to continue to enjoy beauty and valuable memories and pass them on.
Heleen Klingers
CEO, conservator, museaal klimaatadviseur
CEO, curator, indoor climate specialist
With The Bureau for Management and Preservation, Heleen Klingers likes to attract young heritage professionals who are given the opportunity to excel in the heritage field independently under the auspices of the Bureau. She herself has a lot of experience in writing programs of requirements and climate specifications. She makes risk assessments and monitors the climate in various institutions throughout the Netherlands. Heleen helped with sustainability programs in various castles and country houses in the Netherlands and she is a member of the Stichting Kastelen, Buitenplaatsen. Estates (sKBL). She collaborates with Advait Salgargar, whose handcrafted, taylor-made programs provide better insight into climate data provided by the institutions. Together they create plots for a clear overview of the indoor climate on which decisions can be made.
Heleen graduated from the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam on museum climate control, with Martijn de Ruijter. Before graduating, she conducted climate research at Gelders Landschap & Kasteelen. She has studied the preservation of antique furniture in the seven country houses and castles of this organization, among other things by researching the climate decay of a Boulle desk. Together with Marc Stappers of the RCE, she looked at the building-physics problems of old buildings, which in turn influence the collection. She has expanded her practical knowledge of housekeeping in the country houses of Het Gelders Landschap & Kasteelen. She later applied this knowledge by regularly cleaning collections with a brush in, among others, the Rembrandt House. Heleen also did a project at the Kazemattenmuseum on the Afsluitdijk, where she acquired practical knowledge about the preservation of weapons, clothing and leather utensils, such as army boots and weapon belts. In Amsterdam she did research in Gisèle's house on the Herengracht. Heleen worked with the Monument Watch in a project for the Synagoge of Zwolle. Currently, in addition to her work as a curator and climate specialist, she teaches museum climate management at the Reinwardt Academy as a guest teacher for students as well as professionals. Heleen always knows how to surround herself with a team of specialists and in this way has knowledge at hand of several disciplines. We always work with the best professionals for the job.
Devine Biingi
Housekeeping specialist
Devine Biingi was born and raised in Namirembe, Uganda where she went to Wanyange Girls Senior Secondary School. She then proceeded with her study at the St. Lawrence Creamland Campus and the Kvambongo University in Kyambongo. She has a son who studies at the Seeta High in Uganda, a prestigious boarding school, which she finances by working hard on her career in The Netherlands. She came in February 2019 and started to work as a cleaning lady. She now specialises in housekeeping and keeps on expanding her knowledge in the heritage field. Devine is a good organiser and a conscientious housekeeper who can prioritize tasks at hand. She is also a keen learner with many professional qualities still to unfold.
Caroline Ortelli-Hendriks
Office manager
Caroline was born in Amsterdam and lived in Lomé, Togo as a young child. She did VWO at the Zaanlands Lyceum in Zaandam and found a job at Powerflex Surf Sails where she was a representative for Vuarnet. She then found a job at Ahead Advertising, the former advertising agency of Albert Heijn, where she worked as an account executive for individual promotion and De Swarte Walvis. When she had three children in four years, she decided to stay home to focus on their upbringing and took care of the invoice administration for her former husband's company. She picked up the thread of her career again at Office-Ogilvy and SportOffice, where she did secretarial work, among other things. In the evenings she studied English at the University in Amsterdam, after which she got a job as an English teacher at IVKO, a secondary school in Amsterdam, who was then specialised in teaching young artists.
Advait Salgarkar
Natuurkundige
Advait is a physicist born in Hyderabad, India. He studied in India, the United States and in Germany and is currently working in Cologne. Advait is an external force of Het Bureau. He will take care of the complex calculations required for depot design. Advait will do this by means of self-written programs and algorithms already available. In this way, he will make a mathematical translation from the bulk of collection to the space required and refine this by including optimum efficiency in the calculations of furniture, layout and costs. Every aspect of storing collection will be weighed in these calculations. With Advait, Het Bureau has a unique product with which we can serve many museums. He also writes tailormade programs for calculating and plotting climate data.
The five pillars of The Office
1. Enjoying your work
Pleasure in your work is the basis of a good product.
2. Respect for colleagues
Everyone is respected in Het Bureau's work culture. We are courteous and helpful to each other and where recognition of an achievement is due, we will not withhold it.
3. Respect for clients and their heritage
We do our best to care for our clients and their heritage. We handle the collections of our clients with due respect. We are extensively informed about the meaning of the intangible heritage of (religious) objects.
4. Cultural and Social Inclusion
We strive to be a culturally diverse company, taking care that different cultures and backgrounds are represented.
5. Reliable
We strive for fair negotiations, interactions and prices.