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A LECTURE BY DR MARTA WEISS-LEAD CURATOR OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY CENTRE, VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
In the framework of the ΕΜΣΤ International Curators Visiting Programme
Collecting and Exhibiting Photography at the V&A, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, was the first museum in the world to collect photographs, beginning in the 1850s. Today it holds about 800,000 photographs and its Photography Centre is the largest suite of galleries in the UK dedicated a public photography collection. As Lead Curator of the Photography Centre, Dr Marta Weiss oversaw its most recent expansion, which opened in May 2023. In this talk, in the framework of the ΕΜΣΤ International Curators Visiting Programme, she will introduce the V&A’s collection and share her insights into collecting and exhibiting photography within a museum context.
The lecture will be held in English.