Upcoming Events
In Person
Guided tour Sèvres, une Passion Rothschild. De la Ville Ephrussi à Paris
16 June, 2026
1:45 PM (CEST)
42 avenue des Gobelins, 75013 Paris
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In Person panel discussion
Private Passion/ Public Project
30 June 2026
2.30pm (GMT)
Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, UK
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In Person
Curatorial Tour at the American Folk Art Museum
8 July 2026
3:30:PM- 5:00 PM (GMT)
AFAM, 2 Lincoln Center
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In Person
Summer Outing to Bath
25 July 2026
11:00 AM- 6:45 (GMT)
Various, Bath – Meeting at Holburne Museum Great Pulteney St, Bathwick, Bath
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In Person
Annual Lecture – Charles Sebag-Montefiore ‘Collecting Catalogues of Private Collections: Confessions of a Bibliomaniac’
10 September, 2026
5:30 PM (GMT)
The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House Piccadilly London
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Forthcoming Online Lectures
RESCHEDULED to later in the 2026 programme: Helena Cuss, ‘So that art shall not perish from democracies at war’: transnational art dealer Ala Story and the American British Center in New York, c.1940-1945.
18 June 2026, 1-2pm (EDT); 6-7pm (BST); 7-8pm (CEST): Alexandra Watson-Jones, title tbc ‘Souvenirs of Theodore’: Maqdala and the South Kensington Museum in 1868. Please register here : https://thesocietyforthehistoryofcollecting.wildapricot.org/event-6697602
16 July 2026, 1-2pm (EDT); 6-7pm (BST); 7-8pm (CEST): Davide Gasparotto, title tbc Italian Collection at the Getty Museum
19 November 2026, 6-7pm (GMT); 7-8pm (CET); 1-2pm (ET): Helena Cuss, ‘So that art shall not perish from democracies at war’: transnational art dealer Ala Story and the American British Center in New York, c.1940-1945.
17 December 2026, time tbc: Matilde Cartolari, Book Presentation: Ambassadors of Beauty: Italian Old Master Exhibitions and Fascist Cultural Diplomacy 1930-1940
If you have any questions, please contact: info@societyhistorycollecting.org