Publisher: Philippe de Montebello.
Bilingual, Spanish and English. Paperback. 14 x 22 cm. 300 pages.
This book brings together the lectures of the first Cátedra del Museo del Prado, held in 2009 and directed by Philippe de Montebello, in which different speakers addressed the challenges that museums face in the 21st century.
The publication includes the following chapters: "The State of Museums and the Challenges of the Future" by Philippe Montebello (director emeritus of the Metropolitan); "The Eye of the Expert: Some Comments on Connoisseurship" by Michel Laclotte (director of the Musée du Louvre from 1987 to 1995); "The Role of a Museum Curator" by Keith Christiansen (curator, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan); "Past, Present and Future: Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" by Thomas P. Campbell (director of the Metropolitan); "Henry Cole and the Development of the Victoria & Albert Museum as the First Museum Dedicated to Accessibility and Education" by Mark Jones (director of the Victoria and Albert Museum); and "The Museum and New Technologies" by Maxwell L. Anderson (director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art).
ISBN: 9788484802020
