From 1 July 2012 onwards CODART-member Michel van Maarseveen, currently director of the Drents Museum, will become the new director of Paleis Het Loo, succeeding Johan ter Molen, who will retire. Van Maarseveen has been working in Assen since 2002. Before that he was the director of the Haags Historisch Museum/Museum de Gevangenpoort and curator history of the house of Orange in Museum Het Prinsenhof in Delft.