Lunchtime Lectures: Collecting Stories- focus on Nazi-looting in art collections

When we look at the artworks on display in museums around the world, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis. While provenance work has become essential to curatorial work, there are many ways of sharing this information with visitors, from a due diligence exercise to an exhibition.

Join Alice Minter,  Senior Curator of the Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Collection, as she retraces the journey of eight works of art revealing stories of nazi-looting, dispossession, collecting and how they became permanently anchored in the museum’s narrative.

An expert in Decorative Arts, Alice Minter joined the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2018 as Curator of the Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Collection. In 2019, Alice co-curated a ground-breaking display:  Concealed Histories: Uncovering the story of Nazi Looting Art (6 December 2019 – 10 January 2021), with Dr Jacques Schuhmacher, the Gilbert Provenance Curator. Alice has also worked on addressing the museum’s Jewish heritage in all its forms and aspects and co-organised a public symposium in November 2024 entitled The V&A and Its Jewish Heritage: Objects and Stories.