{"id":7598835,"date":"2026-01-09T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_professional&p=7598835"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:54:10","slug":"presenting-the-2026-museums-next-generation-french-laureates","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/presenting-the-2026-museums-next-generation-french-laureates\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting the 2026 Museums Next Generation French Laureates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Launched in 2023, Museums Next Generation is a professional immersion and acceleration program designed to foster dialogue and collaboration between French and American curators. Each year, the program offers French participants a two-week immersive experience in the United States, while American curators take part in a two- week exchange in France, meeting with leading museum professionals in each country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the 2026 edition, the selection jury convened on December 18. Representing six cities across France, the cohort brings together a wide range of expertise, spanning antiquity to contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selected participants will travel to the United States from March 29 to April 11, with visits planned in New York, Williamstown, Detroit, and Chicago. Over the course of the program, they will take part in field visits to some of the country\u2019s most dynamic and innovative institutions, engage with museum leaders, and gain insight into the challenges and specificities of the American museum landscape. The journey will also include networking opportunities with U.S. professionals, fostering long-term international collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selection jury included Olivia Bourrat,<\/strong> Director of Museums and Cultural Heritage at Villa Albertine; Fran\u00e7ois Bridey<\/strong>, Curator at the Louvre Museum, Department of Near Eastern Antiquities;  \u00c9milie Girard<\/strong>, Director of the Strasbourg Museums and President of ICOM France; Olivier Meslay<\/strong>, Director of the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA; Charles Personnaz<\/strong>, Director of the National Heritage Institute; and Emilie Vanhesbrook<\/strong>, Executive Director of FRAME France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Museums Next Generation is organized in partnership with Albertine Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look back at the 2025 cohort\u2019s journey here,<\/a> and learn more about the 2026 Museums Next Generation laureates below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2026 French Cohort<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Left to Right: Val\u00e9rie Carpentier, Romy Wyche, Nicolas Hatot, Andr\u00e9a Pares, Florent Molle, Aby Gaye-Duparc, and Claire Leboss\u00e9<\/p>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Val\u00e9rie Carpentier, Curator of French and European 17th-Century Sculpture, Department of Sculptures, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Val\u00e9rie Carpentier-Vanhaverbeke is an archivist-paleographer and holds a doctorate from the \u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes. As Curator of Heritage, she has been responsible for French and European 17th-century sculpture in the Department of Sculptures at the Louvre Museum since 2015. Previously, she served as a curator at the Ch\u00e2teau de Fontainebleau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aby Gaye-Duparc, Curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l\u2019art contemporain, Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aby Gaye-Duparc is a curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l\u2019art contemporain, where she is organizing Ibrahim Mahama\u2019s first exhibition in Paris (2026), following her work on the retrospective of textile artist Olga de Amaral (2024\u20132025). A PhD candidate in Art History at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), her research focuses on women artists in Senegal between the 1960s and 1990s, in the context of the establishment of a national art scene post-independence and the emergence of feminist and Pan-African movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas Hatot, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Collections, Mus\u00e9e des Antiquit\u00e9s, Rouen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A graduate of Paris-Sorbonne University and INP, Nicolas Hatot is Curator of Heritage in charge of Medieval and Renaissance collections at the Mus\u00e9e des Antiquit\u00e9s de Rouen. A specialist in medieval art objects, he has published extensively on goldsmithing, enamels, glass, and ivory. In 2016, he received the ICMA Student Essay Award (New York) for his research on the Carolingian crystal of the Baptism of Christ, held in Rouen. He also teaches Medieval and Byzantine Art History at the \u00c9cole du Louvre. He has curated exhibitions such as Tr\u00e9sors enlumin\u00e9s de Normandie<\/em> (in partnership with INHA and IRHT), Savants et Croyants. <\/em>Les Juifs d\u2019Europe du Nord au Moyen \u00c2ge<\/em> (in partnership with EPHE), and Normands. <\/em>Migrants. Conqu\u00e9rants. Innovateurs<\/em> (in partnership with the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Leboss\u00e9, Director-Curator, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Caen, and Deputy Director of the Ch\u00e2teau site<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Leboss\u00e9 has been Director-Curator of the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Caen and Deputy Director of the Ch\u00e2teau site since November 2025. Previously, she was curator responsible for the modern art collections at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019arts de Nantes since 2011. Over fourteen years, she played a key role in redefining the museum during its extension and renovation, developed an ambitious acquisition policy, particularly focusing on women artists associated with Surrealism, and designed and coordinated large-scale exhibitions combining scientific rigor with audience engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florent Molle, Chief Curator of Heritage and Director of the Mus\u00e9e de la Coutellerie, Thiers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florent Molle is Chief Curator of Heritage and Director of the Mus\u00e9e de la Coutellerie in Thiers (Puy-de-D\u00f4me). Trained as an anthropologist, he previously worked at the Mucem (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations) and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-\u00c9tienne M\u00e9tropole. In 2023, he defended a thesis on community participation and the universalism of museums. Since 2025, he has been a member of the board of the Federation of Ecomuseums and Social Museums (FEMS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andr\u00e9a Pares, Director-Curator, Mus\u00e9um d\u2019Histoire Naturelle du Var, Toulon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andr\u00e9a Pares is currently Director of the Mus\u00e9um d\u2019Histoire Naturelle du Var, in Toulon, where she oversees the renovation and expansion of the visitor route as well as the collections project. With a PhD in Archaeology and Environment from Paris 1 \/ MNHN, she specialized in the conservation of scientific heritage through INP (Sarah Bernhardt cohort). Committed to advancing conservation of natural science objects, research, and heritage, she coordinates the ICOM NATHIST network and participates in research programs led by MNHN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romy Wyche, Director, Mus\u00e9e d\u00e9partemental Arles Antique<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romy Wyche is an art historian and archaeologist specializing in Roman Antiquity. After a career as a researcher in international academic institutions, she now directs the Mus\u00e9e d\u00e9partemental Arles Antique. 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