Projects

Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592-1663) and early modern Polypragmatism, main editor

with Vera Keller (Oregon Univ.) and Marika Keblusek (Leiden Univ.) Amsterdam University Press. 

The Kunstkammer and the Early Modern Consort

Learned Women Collectors in Saxony.

Provenance Research in Action. Theory, Tools and Implementation

A week-long workshop for doctoral and MA students. The workshop was co-organised with Adriano Aymonino, Barbara Furlotti, and Silvia Davoli. The following institutions participated: V&A’s Gilbert Collections, the National Gallery, Sotheby’s Institute, Christie’s Restitution Department, the British Library, the University of Buckingham, Blairman & Sons, Weiss Gallery and The Commission for Looted Art all on behalf of The Society of the History of Collecting. London June 12-16, 2023.

Opening the Cabinet of Curiosities at the Victoria and Albert Museum

A project that investigated the role of the early modern collecting phenomena of the Kunstkammer and what it came to play, not merely as the precursor of the modern museum, but also its role in collecting in a wider perspective, from the Victorian era to our own time, especially through the lens of contemporary artist Mark Dion. 

The first annual Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Lecture in the History of Collecting:

Professor Paula Findlen (Stanford University) celebrating Arthur MacGregor & Oliver Impey’s publication The Origins of Museums, Victoria and Albert Museum, November 30, 2016.

What was Europe? A new Salon

A series of salons of salons that took place within a globe structure in the galleries devoted to Europe 1600-1815 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Co-hosted with Professor Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge and Professor Bill Sherman and funded by The British Academy.