Lecture Series | Perspectives on Collecting

Posted in lectures (to attend) by Editor on October 31, 2019

Perspectives on Collecting: A Four-Part Lecture Series
Strawberry Hill House, London, 6–27 November 2019

Strawberry Hill Trust hosts a four-part lecture series exploring perspectives on collecting from renowned speakers: David Starkey, historian and presenter; Tim Knox, Director of the Royal Collection; Martin Caiger-Smith, author and Head of the MA Curating the Art Museum programme at The Courtauld Institute of Art; and Tristram Hunt, Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum. The lectures will begin at 7.30pm in the Waldegrave Drawing Room by kind permission of St Mary’s University. Guests are invited to arrive from 6.45pm to enjoy a complimentary glass of fizz in Horace Walpole’s magnificent Gallery.

Wednesday, 6 November
David Starkey, Holbein and The Tudor Court

Wednesday, 13 November
Tim Knox, The Rise and Fall of the Country House Museum

Wednesday, 20 November
Martin Caiger-Smith, Antony Gormley’s Interventions in Historic Collections

Wednesday 27 November
Tristram Hunt, Collecting the Home