"We have selected Dr. Claudia Emmert together with a top-class commission. She particularly fulfills the profile of the future director of the Kunstmuseum, has excellent museum expertise and management experience. A central goal of her work will be to strengthen the social impact of museums in the present day through relevant topics," said Mayor Katja Dörner on the selection of Claudia Emmert.

Since 2014, Emmert has been Director and Managing Director of the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen, an interdisciplinary two-division museum for art and technology, which has received several awards for its sustainability strategy and provenance research and most recently received the Lotto Museum Prize Baden-Württemberg 2024 for its innovative museum concepts and important social impulses. Previously, Claudia Emmert was the founding director of the Kunstpalais in Erlangen and head of the DSV Kunstkontor in Stuttgart. She was also a lecturer at various universities.

She studied art history, German and Romance studies at the University of Stuttgart, where she also completed her doctorate. Claudia Emmert is a member of the board of ICOM Germany, a member of the sustainability working group of the German Museums Association and co-author of the guide "Climate Protection in Museums". She has been appointed to numerous expert committees and advisory boards, such as the Education Committee of the German Cultural Council and the Acquisition Commission of the Federal Art Collection.