The 2024 Museums Next Generation French Laureates

Seven French museum curators from all 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, French laureautes will travel to Los Angeles from April 14 to 21, and then to New York and the East Coast from May 12 to 19. During these two weeks, 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 American museum landscape. They will also take part in networking events with American professionals.

The 2024 French Cohort

• Damarice Amao, Associate Curator for Photography at the Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris

• Paméla Grimaud, Curator and Head of Collection and Research at the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence

• Enguerrand Lascols, Curator at MUCEM – Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille

• Lise Mesz, Curator in charge of the prefiguration of the resources and research Center on Asia, Musée Guimet, Paris

• Pierre-Hippolyte Pénet, Curator in Charge of the 15^th to 18^th Century Collection at the Palais des ducs de Lorraine – Musée Lorrain, Nancy

• Julie Rohou, Curator in Charge of Goldsmiths, Jewelry, Measuring Instruments, and Arms at the National Museum of Renaissance, Château d’Ecouen, Ecouen

• Fabrice Rubiella, Curator in Charge of Antiques, Non-European Art, Decorative Arts, and Sculptures at the Musées d’Angers.

On January 16, 2024, a jury of professionals gathered to select the latest cohort. The jury included, Oriane Beaufils, Curator and Head of Collection at Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat; Anne-Lise Desmas, Curator and Head of Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Olivier Meslay, Director of the Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA; and Charles Personnaz, Director of the Institut national du patrimoine, Paris.

American candidates will be selected for the program this summer to participate in a 10-day immersion in the French museum ecosystem in October 2024.

Museums Next Generation is organized in partnership with Albertine Foundation and the Institut national du patrimoine, and is made possible thanks to the generous support of an anonymous donor.