Announcing the 2024 Museums Next Generation US Laureates
Le musée de Cluny – musée national du Moyen Âge (Paris). M. Denancé, architecte.
Seven US museum curators from a range of art history specialties have been selected for the second edition of Villa Albertine’s Museums Next Generation program. Launched in 2023, Museums Next Generation is a professional immersion and acceleration program for French and American curators.
As part of the program, French participants spend two weeks in the United States and American curators have the opportunity to engage in a 10-day exchange in France to meet with key museum professionals in the respective countries.
For the 2024 edition, as French laureates traveled from Los Angeles to New York and the East Coast last spring, US participants will travel to France from October 14 to 23. During these 10 days, participants will benefit from field visits at some of the most dynamic and innovative institutions in the country, meeting with leaders in the field and learning about the challenges and specificities of the French museum landscape. They will also take part in networking events with French professionals, thanks to an exceptional partnership with FRAME (French American Museum Exchange), a consortium of 32 major art museums in France and North America, which will hold its annual congress in Nancy during the program period.
The 2024 US Cohort
From top to bottom, left to right: Aaron While, Anita Bateman, Anabelle Gambert-Jouan, Rachel Kabukele, Melissa Venator, Arpad Kovacs and Julia Perratore
- Anita Bateman, Associate Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Anabelle Gambert-Jouan, Assistant Curator, European Art, Dallas Museum of Art,
Dallas - Rachel Kabukala, Associate Curator, African Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
- Arpad Kovacs, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Julia Perratore, Associate Curator, Medieval Art, The Met Cloisters, New York
- Melissa Venator, Assistant Curator, Modern Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
- Aaron Wile, Associate Curator, Department of French Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Museums Next Generation is organized by Villa Albertine and the Embassy of France in the
United States, in partnership with Albertine Foundation, the Institut national du patrimoine and FRAME, and is made possible thanks to the generous support of an anonymous donor and the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.
The third edition of Museums Next Generation will be held in 2025. French candidates will be selected for the program next fall to participate in a two-week immersion in the US museum ecosystem in Texas and on the East Coast in April and May 2025. US candidates will be selected in spring 2025 to travel to France in fall 2025.