Eike Schmidt is director of the Uffizi in Florence since 2015. He directed the Department of Sculpture, Decorative Arts and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2009–2015) and created a sub-department of Jewish Art. He curated Diafane passioni on Baroque sculpture at Florence's Palazzo Pitti in 2013, was a curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (2006–2008) and a member of the valuation commission for the Maastricht International Antiques Fair (2010–2015).
As of January 2021