The 2025 Museums Next Generation French Laureates

Seven French museum curators from a range of art history specialties have been selected for the third 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 2025 edition, the jury convened on December 11 and selected seven laureates from a pool of 40 candidates, representing six different French cities and a wide range of expertise, from antiquity to contemporary art.

The selected participants will travel to the United States from April 7 to 17, spending one week in Texas and another week in New York and the East Coast. Over these two weeks, they will engage in field visits to some of the most dynamic and innovative institutions in the country, meet with leaders in the field, and gain insights into the challenges and specificities of the American museum landscape. They will also participate in networking events with American professionals, fostering international collaboration and exchange.

The 2025 French Cohort

• Sandra Buratti-Hassan, Heritage Curator at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
• Jessica Degain, Heritage Curator at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours
• Louise Detrez, Heritage Curator at the National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France) in Paris
• Estelle Géraud, Chief Curator at the Château-Museum of Saumur
• Juliette Lecorne, Curator at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain) in Paris
• Laurence Marlin, Heritage Curator responsible for ancient collections at the Museum of Antiquities (Musée des Antiquités) in Rouen
• Grégoire Prangé, Exhibition Curator, responsible for conservation coordination at LaM, Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art

On December 11, 2024, a jury of professionals gathered to select the latest cohort. The jury included François Bridey, Curator at the Louvre Museum; Anne-Lise Desmas, Curator and Head of the Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum; Émilie Girard, Director of the Strasbourg Museums and President of ICOM France; Olivier Meslay, Director of the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA; Charles Personnaz, Director of the Institut national du patrimoine; Olivia Voisin, Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans and former Villa Albertine resident; and Olivia Bourrat, Director of Museums and Cultural Heritage at Villa Albertine.

Museums Next Generation is organized in partnership with Albertine Foundation, the Institut national du patrimoine, and FRAME.