Kim Verkens is a textile conservator at MoMu Antwerp, who graduated as a master in textile conservation in 2007 from the former Artesis Hogeschool in Antwerp. Since 2009 she is the textile conservator at MoMu Antwerp, where she is responsible for the preventive and active conservation of the MoMu Collection. She is responsible for the storages of MoMu and constantly seeks for new methods in preventive conservation with the storage managers for the benefit of the collection. She performs active conservation on historical and contemporary costumes.

Next to her work as a textile conservator she also does research on plastics in fashion, more specifically on TPU coatings. In 2020 a project ‘Glossy Surfaces’ was started funded by the Flemish Government, consisting out of an international consortium between Centexbel, MUDE and The MET. This project has as goal to find solutions on the preventive conservation of TPU coatings.