QAIC’s Museum Series will bring together panels composed of museum experts and curators from Qatar and the US to highlight and discuss their respective collections and the factors that contributed to their composition, as well as the impact that they have had on their respective organizations and throughout the wider world.
The distinguished speakers will present and discuss the curation, evolution, and history of each museums’ collection and the various factors and challenges facing them. Audiences will get a unique insider’s look into the curatorial processes of various museums, the history of these collections, and the differing approaches museums in the West versus the East take to acquire and successfully exhibit them.
Past Events
The curators featured were the following:
Dr. Navina Najat Haidar, Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and The Ebrahimi Family Curator of Persian, Arab, and Turkish Art – Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Dr. Aimée Froom, Curator of Art of the Islamic Worlds – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dr. Linda Komaroff, Curator of Islamic Art and Department Head of Art of the Middle East – Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Dr. Julia Gonnella, Director of the Museum of Islamic Art – Museum of Islamic Art, Doha