Lisa Skogh de Zoete is a scholar, researcher, lecturer and project leader with extensive international experience at museums, universities and other cultural institutions conducting research, curatorial work and running projects. Academically, she specialises in early modern European history in between the arts and sciences with a strong focus on the history of collecting, especially the early modern period. This has made Lisa Skogh de Zoete an expert on the history of cabinets of curiosities, Kunst- and Wunderkammern, the precursor of the modern museum. She has lectured and published extensively in the UK and around the world. She has received many awards, amongst them, the British Academy Rising Star Award. Presently, she works on various publishing projects, such as the multi-author publication Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592-1663). Early Modern Polypragmatism for Amsterdam University Press (to be published 2026).

Recently, she led the project Opening the Cabinet of Curiosity at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. This was part of a prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Funded V&A Research Institute. In this key project she worked closely with the contemporary American artist Mark Dion and her fellow early modernist Earle Havens of Johns Hopkins University. At the V&A she led the project What was Europe? A New Salon a project produced together with Professor Simon Schaffer of Cambridge University and the British Academy which resulted in a series of podcasts. Further, she participated in the exhibition catalogue Alexander McQueen – Savage Beauty curated by Claire Wilcox. In 2016, she took the initiative to set up the annual Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Lecture in the History of Collecting where Professor Paula Findlen of Stanford University gave the inaugural lecture on the scholarly impact of the Arthur MacGregor’s and the late Oliver Impey’s publication The Origins of Museums.

Lisa Skogh de Zoete is based in London and has a PhD from Stockholm University and MA from the Bard Graduate Center in New York. She is a Fellow at a number of institutions including The Society of Antiquaries. She has worked and pursued research at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Rosenborg in Copenhagen, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschitchte in Munich and is a trustee of The Society for the History of Collecting (2016-).