Martin Olin completed his doctoral dissertation in art history at Lund University and is currently the director of Research at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Between 2013 and 2015, he was the Assistant Director of the Swedish Institute in Rome. He has published books and articles on architectural drawings, portraiture, the decorative arts and royal patronage in seventeenth-century Sweden. He curated the seventeenth-century galleries of the new permanent collection at the Nationalmuseum that opened in 2018.